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Hutchinson, Virginia
Keller, Kristin
Reid, Thomas
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National Institute of Corrections. Jails Division (Washington, DC)
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Published 2009.
16 pages.
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Corrections administration
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Jails
(Offender Management)
This guide “presents six key elements that, in combination, will help jails reduce a wide array of negative, destructive, and dangerous inmate behavior” (p. v). These elements are: assessing risk and needs; assigning inmates to housing; meeting inmates’ basic needs; defining and conveying expectations for inmate behavior; supervising inmates; and keeping inmates productively occupied.
Accession Number: 023882
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