2.15pm – 3pm BST, 15 May 2025 ‐ 45 mins
Parallel Workshops
This panel includes a distinct focus on correctional culture(s) within custodial (prison/jail) and community (probation/parole/reentry) and the ways organizational polices and practices both create barriers to and facilitators of successful correctional care, custody, and control. The four presentations include empirical data from four of the top scholars in corrections in the U.S. and Canada. The panel will present key findings about staff mental health, wellness, and safety in prisons while including a focus on successful endeavors within community supervision to improve daily practice and thus outcomes. Topics include staff mental health and sexual harassment in prison and data-driven and intentional reform planning in community supervision.



Research Associate, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence, George Mason University

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 former 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 correctional agencies. 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 won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Rudes has won numerous other awards for her research, mentoring, and teaching including the 2024 Excellence in Research Award from the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA).
Professor, George Mason University, United States

Professor, Memorial University, Canada
Rosemary [Rose] Ricciardelli, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, she is also an inaugural member (and the Vice Chair) of the Academic, Research and Clinician Network Advisory Council (ARC NAC), and founding member, of the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT). Her additional affiliations and appointments include: an Associate Scientist at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health, an Affiliate Scientist with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and a Research Fellow with John Howard’s Society of Toronto and Crossroads Day Reporting Centre. She has published over 160 journal articles, 45 chapters and given over 350 presentations and invited talks, all in a range of academic journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, Sex Roles, and Theoretical Criminology. She has authored five books and four edited collections. In her first entitled Surviving Incarceration: Inside Canadian Prisons (2014), she explores the realities of penal living for federally incarcerated men in Canada. Her other books include Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections (with D. Spencer, 2017), and Also Serving Time: Canada’s Provincial and Territorial Correctional Officers, which focused on the work experiences of correctional officers (sole-authored, 2019). She has also published four edited collections, including Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research (co-edited) and After Prison: Navigating Employment and Reintegration (co-edited).
Research Associate, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence, George Mason University