Where can I find resources on states with exemplary corrections programs?
Best Practices: Excellence in Corrections (HV9469 .B47 1998), edited by Edward E. Rhine, is a 19-chapter book devoted to the best practices in correctional facilities, each chapter dealing with a different area. The book outlines the specific programs used in correctional institutions that have been proven effective in the following areas: adult corrections, adult local detention facilities, residential and nonresidential community corrections, correctional education, correctional industries, disturbance preparedness, employee training, facility design, health care, juvenile corrections, mental health, public information, research, restorative justice, shock incarceration, substance-abuse treatment, technology, and victims. Some programs listed in the book are Connecticut’s Close Custody Phase Program, developed to eliminate gang behavior; Kansas’s Transportation Assistance Program, used to cut costs on transporting prisoners; and Louisiana’s IMPACT Program, a strict boot-camp program
