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Project Guide: Best Practices -- In-Custody Programs for Juveniles and Adults
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Project Guide: Best Practices -- In-Custody Programs for Juveniles and Adults
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Author(s)
Trotti, Trudie
Source(s)
Justice Planners International (JPI) (Demarest, NJ)
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Corrections. Native American and Alaskan Technical Assistance Project (NAATAP) (Washington, DC)
U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance (Washington, DC)
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Published 2005.
46 pages.
Related Topics
Minorities
(Special Offenders)
Rehabilitation
(Offender Services)
Seventeen best practice in-custody programs (the "placement in residential program that restrict offender access to the community") are described (p. 7). Programs highlighted are: Aggression Replacement Training; B-Cultural Substance Abuse Curriculum; Cognitive Skills Training; Correctional Services of Canada's Aboriginal Sex Offender Program; Family Connections Project; Literacy Programs in Canadian prisons; Mettanokit Prison Program; Native Clan Organizational Correctional Programs; Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge; Pawsitive Directions Canine Program; Positive Action Program; Project Achieve; Residential Student Assistance Program (RSAP); RSVP -- Resolve to Stop the Violence Project; Therapeutic Communities (TCs) for Substance Abuse; Utah Division of Youth Corrections Aftercare Program; and Victim-Offender Mediation.
Accession Number: 020745
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