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American Correctional Association The American Correctional Association is a multi-disciplinary organization of professionals representing all facets of corrections & criminal justice, including federal, state, and military correctional facilities and prisons, county jails and detention centers, probation/parole agencies, and community corrections/halfway houses. Comprised of 70 chapters & affiliated organizations and individual members of more than 20,000, ACA serves as the umbrella organization for all areas of corrections, providing a broad base of expertise that no other organization in the world can offer to this growing field. . . The American Jail Association (AJA) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting those who work in and operate our nation's jails. The Association was formed in June 1981 as a result of a merger between the National Jail Association and the National Jail Managers' Association. American Probation and Parole Association APPA is at the vanguard in exploring issues relevant to the field of community-based corrections. APPA is an international association composed of individuals from the United States, its territories and Canada; actively involved with probation, parole and community-based corrections, in both adult and juvenile sectors including all levels of government, local, state/provincial and federal agencies. Please take a few minutes to browse around our site and the many services that APPA offers. The Boulder County Jail, located at 3200 Airport Road, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, opened in 1988 with a bed design capacity of 287. The jail is a 103,400 square foot facility currently having a bed capacity of 400. These beds range from maximum security single-cells to minimum security dormitory housing units. The total cost of the facility including acquisition of the land was $14.95 million. Overall construction costs were approximately $11 million. Collin County Detention Center, Texas Collin County opted to construct a "direct supervision" facility, which uses a podular design for inmate housing instead of a linear design, to create a secure and humane environment for both staff and inmates. The structure, intandem with the direct supervision philosophy, promotes supervision of nmates rather than control by intermittent surveillance and security barriers alone. Recognizing that during the course of their careers detention employees will spend more time in the facility than will any incarcerated individual, the facility was designed to offer safe and normal working environment for the staff. This environment promotes positive morale, increases motivation, improves efficiency, and minimizes staff turnover. Colorado Department of Corrections The Colorado Department of Corrections provides protection and public safety by managing offenders in controlled environments of prisons, community-based facilities and parole programs that are safe, humane, ppropriately secure, and provide work and self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in community-reintegration. Colorado Community Corrections Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Community Corrections home page. Colorado Division of Youth Corrections The Division of Youth Corrections is responsible for management and oversight of State-operated and privately contracted residential facilities, and for community alternative programs that serve and treat youth aged 10-21 years who have demonstrated delinquent behavior. Programs and services administered by or under contract with the Division serve over 10,000 youth throughout Colorado in intensive secure units, medium care units, a military-style boot camp, secure detention, staff secure facilities and non-secure community residential programs. In addition, the Division provides assessment program services for committed youth at four State facilities as well as nonresidential services to youth in community settings and youth on parole. The Division is also responsible for allocating funds by formula to each judicial district in accordance with Senate Bill 91-94 to develop local alternatives to incarceration as a means of reducing reliance on costly residential placement. Local SB91-94 programs serve approximately 10,000 youth per year. Colorado Office of Probation Services The Office of Probation Services was created in 1994 as a way to improve the delivery of probation services in Colorado by providing coordinated support services within the State Court Administrator's office. Activities of the office have included coordinated training, program review and evaluation, research and evaluation and interagency coordination and cooperation. To that end the Office has, together with representatives of the probation system, developed a common ground statement which helps guide the activities of this office as well as the probation programs in Colorado. Cook
County, Illinois Jail Denver, Colorado Division of Community Corrections Denver City and County Community Corrections home page.
Federal Bureau of Prisons home page. Hong Kong Correctional Services The primary aim of the century and a half years old Department is to look after some 11,000 inmates under our care by providing a safe and healthy environment in which they can rehabilitate and prepare themselves in their eventual return to the society. We also provide adult prisoners with gainful employment so as to instil good working habits and, at the same time alleviate boredom, which is essential in maintaining good order in our 24 penal institutions. Additionally, all young inmates undergo educational programs or vocational training so that they can better equip themselves in seeking employment after release. International Community Corrections Association ICCA is a private, non-profit organization representing a continuum of community corrections programs. We provide information, training, and other services to enhance the quality of services and supervision for offenders and to promote effective management practices. We're committed to promoting and enhancing community corrections as a vital component of the criminal justice system. Justice Services - El Paso County, Colorado The Department’s mission is to create and manage correctional alternatives to institutional confinement with the purposes of saving the taxpayers the cost of building and maintaining jail and prison cells and guaranteeing consequences to offenders who commit crimes while ensuring public safety. National Institute of Corrections We are a center of correctional learning and experience. We advance and shape effective correctional practice and public policy that respond to the needs of corrections through collaboration and leadership and by providing assistance, information, education, and training. New York City Corrections Department The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) averages a daily inmate population of between 18,000 to 20,000, more than the entire prison system in any of 40 states. On an average day, the Department logs more than 3,500 miles transporting inmates to courts in the five boroughs and to medical and other jail or prison facilities throughout the city and state. A Web page with information on private prison issues. United States Sentencing Commission General information about the Commission.
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