Research to Practice: Improving Correctional Wellness by Using What We Already Have

ICPA2024 Presentation by Kevin Wright, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Danielle Rudes (ICPA2024-PID217)

Authors

Danielle Rudes

Professor, Sam Houston State University, United States

Danielle S. Rudes is a Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She is also Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!). She is a Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Assistance focusing on Enhancing Correctional Spaces and Cultures. Dr. Rudes is an expert qualitative researcher with over 20 years of experience working with U.S. correctional agencies including prisons, jails, probation, parole, and problem-solving courts. She is recognized for her work examining how social control organizations understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes has a broad grant portfolio with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment and she is on the editorial boards of several other journals. Her book, Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units (Stanford University Press, 2022), won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Rosemary Ricciardelli

Research Chair, Safety, Security, and Wellness Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor (PhD) in the School of Maritime Studies and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. The winner of the 2023 International Corrections and Prison Association’s Research Excellence Award and the Canadian Sociological Association’s Angus Reid Applied Researcher Award, Ricciardelli was also elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Her research centers on evolving understandings of gender, vulnerabilities, risk, and experiences and issues within different facets of the criminal justice system and among mariners. She has published 16 books, 270+ journal articles and 65+ chapters all in the areas of police, firefighting, correctional workers, public safety communicators, and criminalized persons, and wellness – broadly defined. As a sex and gender researcher, her interests lay in the social health, identity construction, and lived experiences of individuals. She leads a longitudinal study on the mental health and well-being experiences of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada.

Dr Kevin Wright

Director, Arizona State University Center for Correctional Solutions, Arizona State University, United States

Kevin A. Wright is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and director of the Center for Correctional Solutions at Arizona State University. He earned his Ph.D. in criminal justice from Washington State University in 2010. His work focuses on enhancing the lives of people living and working in the correctional system through research, education, and community engagement. Dr. Wright developed and taught the first Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program class in the state of Arizona and is a co-founder of the Arizona Transformation Project—a learning community of faculty, students, and people who are incarcerated. He was awarded the Washington State University Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022, the American Society of Criminology Teaching Award in 2020, and the Arizona State University Faculty Women's Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor in 2019. Dr. Wright is co-author, alongside a man incarcerated for life, of the book Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison, with a production date of December of 2024 from Rutgers University Press.

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