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In 2020, North Carolina Prisons established an internal team known as the Innovation Institute, comprising an Administrator and multiple staff positions. The Innovation Institute serves to research and review evidence-based practices, innovative concepts, and varying correctional initiatives with the intent of generating recommendations that may further North Carolina Prisons’ ability to achieve strategic goals. Projects will focus on a variety of subject matters including technological advances, safety and security improvements, staff support and development, programming and treatment opportunities, and more. The Innovation Institute seeks to become a premier thought leader in corrections locally and globally.
(1.45 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Charles Mautz & Todd Ishee
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Although ‘evidence-based approaches’ have become a hallmark for good practice in correctional services, we cannot fall into stubborn minimalism that may ignore realities on the ground. Especially for violent extremist offenders (VEOs) in conflict-inflicted areas, where scientific evidence is scarce, there is an urgent call for practice-based approaches that embrace an integration of practice-evidence, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and a focus on empowerment. This article, along with a telling example made by a NGO, discusses a potential solution to such demand in the field of deradicalization and reintegration of VEOs, and aims to fill in the hole of the universal norm.
(1.52 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Yosuke Nagai & Kanu Maeda
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This article argues that if we want to fully understand how the future of prisons will unfold, we must critically interrogate the “new normal” of the evolving Pandemic State and associated advanced technological tools and trends, toward digital surveillance, digital authoritarianism, polarising new media and community policing. Moreover, this article argues that carceral citizens, and the low socio-economic communities they come from, will be disproportionately affected by social and economic inequalities aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath. Here in Australia, access to safe, secure and affordable housing will continue to be a particular hot spot issue, due in part to neoliberalist Australian government policies and funding cutbacks that […]
(1.44 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Susan Hopkins
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In this paper we consider the value of different types of ‘evidence’ from the perspectives of a correctional agency research director and a university researcher. We discuss both the feasibility and the desirability of collecting the type of evidence that has largely informed correctional policy and practice and argue that there is a need to broaden our methodological frame to address the gaps that exist in our current knowledge base and the problems that inevitably arise when trying to translate research findings into practice
(1.46 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Jennifer J. Galouzis & Andrew Day
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Recognizing the opportunity to fundamentally change the way technology is supporting corrections, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is undergoing a modernization of their Offender Management System to enhance offender management throughout the correctional process. With technology and the business as strategic partners, CSC has been able to drive transformation by bridging business challenges with technology solutions. This paper will explore the sequence of events that led to CSC’s business investment, the conditions that must be in place for successful transformation, and explore some illustrative examples of potential emerging technologies that could be used to augment the capabilities of OMS in 2030, including case management, sentence calculation and cell placement.
(1.5 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Simon Bonk
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This article discusses the current and potential future use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in prisons. In a quickly digitalizing society, prison systems are also being rapidly digitalized, and the latest examples of this development are AI solutions implemented for security technique and offender management. A literature review and a survey to 20 jurisdictions globally are summarized in this article. We will also discuss the possible side effects of AI being implemented and the ethical questions related to its future use in prison context
(1.46 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Pia Puolakka & Steven Van De Steene
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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted concerted calls for emergency decarceration efforts worldwide, truly on an unprecedented scale. Among other things, such calls have underscored the necessity to have systems in place that prepare incarcerated individuals for reentering society as soon as the incarceration begins, as a matter of standard practice. Although the correctional literature highlights the positive influence that post-release reentry services can have on behavior of previously incarcerated individuals, less is known about the role that pre-release programs can play in ensuring successful post-release outcomes – despite the fact that many jurisdictions employ some version of pre-release programming. This paper argues that efforts to design effective pre-release options conducive […]
(1.52 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: E. Rely Vîlcică & Steven Belenko
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This paper presents a summary of the research, theory, and guidance pertaining to effective practice in probation. Important factors include the development of practice competencies to bring about change, and the promotion of strong, integrated relations with stakeholders and communities. A framework is proposed for the development of mature services, and factors supportive of international capacity building are identified. Pessimistic and optimistic scenarios are explored, with steps proposed to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes.
(1.55 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Stephen Pitts & Leo Tigges
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This paper presents the findings of a research project the ICRC carried out on restrictive detention regimes between 2018 and 2020 in Europe and Central Asia. The work came from a growing concern about the use and potential misuse of such regimes within criminal detention. It shows how prevalent restrictive regimes are within prison systems, the different shapes they can take and the many categories of detainees they affect. Given the concerns restrictive detention regimes raise, the ICRC is calling for states to review and reduce their use of restrictive regimes.
(1.49 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Anne-Julie Deniel & Sara Snell
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This paper presents some of the understandings which emerged while developing a Violence Prevention Program for Aboriginal men in prison. The program was designed in collaboration with members of the Aboriginal Services Unit of the South Australian Department for Correctional Services. The paper includes discussions of the limitations of the Risk-Need-Responsivity model and Good Lives Model in relation to working with this population, and the importance of recognizing the role of trauma. In addition, it describes the Aboriginal concept of kanyini, a term from the Luritja and Pitjantjatjara languages, defined as “holding” by Ryan (2011) and “love with responsibility” by Smitsman, Martens and Laszlo (2019, citing Bob Randall). It should […]
(1.48 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Shawn Sowerbutts, Gene Mercer, Henry Pharo, Vickie Dodd and Joanne Leonello
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