Summary: The topic for the twenty-eighth TV show produced by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) and the Office of Cable Television is “CSOSA’s Young Adult Offender Program.” Television Program: The program provides an overview of CSOSA’s young adult efforts based on national best practice standards. The program will discuss: The findings of national best practice research. How CSOSA chooses youthful high risk adult offenders based on risk instruments with a focus on violence, weapons, sex offenses, drug use and previous violations while under community supervision. CSOSA efforts to focus on the treatment of young adults. CSOSA efforts to focus on the supervision of young adults. Participants-first segment: Jim Cosby, Community Services Division Chief, National Institute of Corrections Lisa Rawlings PhD, Special Assistant to the Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Participants-second segment: Stephanie Thompson, Community Supervision Officer, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Christopher Barno, Treatment Specialist, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Special Announcements: A top priority for Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice. A new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the “What Works Clearinghouse” can be seen at http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works. The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council. Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm . The Office of Violence Against Women offers stalking response tips for corrections, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, victims and victim advocates. They are posted on OVW’s website at www.ovw.usdoj.gov . Correctional Social Media: The Pew Center on the State’s Public Safety Performance Project offers a video on research to reduce recidivism as well as brief but powerful overviews of reentry and sentencing research. See http://www.pewstates.org/projects/public-safety-performance-project-328068 . The U.S. DOJ Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships held two successful webinars on Faith and Community Based approaches to Reentry and Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives. Click the links below to watch/listen to these informative webinars. Faith and Community Based Approaches to Responsible Fatherhood and its Impact on Delinquency Prevention, seehttps://bjatraining.org/media/webinar/faith-and-community-based-approaches-responsible-fatherhood-and-its-impact-delinquency A Look at Faith & Community-Based Approaches to Offender Reentry, see httpshttps://bjatraining.org/media/webinar/look-faith-community-based-approaches-offender-reentry The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on offender reentry. Please visit their website at http://www.doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/. The New York State [...]
