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Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, January 2000

Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, January 2000

National Institute of Corrections. Jails Division (Longmont, CO)

Published 2000. 88 pages.

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This meeting focused primarily on topics related to the role of the jail in the local criminal justice system. Contents include: meeting highlights; justice system coordination and cooperation -- how the jail benefits and the system is improved; criminal justice coordination and cooperation; issues in defining and re-defining the jail's mission; role of the jail in contributing to the efficiency of the local criminal justice system; community oriented policing; roundtable discussion of implications for large jails of the presentations made; legal issues update; and future meeting topics. Appendixes include materials referred to in the meeting summary, meeting agenda, and meeting participants. Accession Number: 016066

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