• A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Adult Prisons and Jails
• A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Youth Confinement Facilities
• Classification of High-Risk and Special Management Prisoners: A National Assessment of Current Practices
• Effectively Managing Aging and Geriatric Offenders
  Click Link, Add to Cart and Order. The disc set will be shipped to you. This 3-hour program will interest anyone dealing with geriatric offenders. Issues covered during this presentation include: Who geriatric offenders are, awareness of their needs, staff training and special considerations for this population.
• Enhancing Prison Classification Systems: The Emerging Role of Management Information Systems
• Exercises for Developing MI Skills in Corrections
• Internal Prison Classification Systems: Case Studies in Their Development and Implementation
• LGBTI Populations: Intake – Creating A Culture of Safety
• LGBTI Populations: Their Safety, Your Responsibility
• LGBTI: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Offenders (Selected Resources for Criminal Justice Professionals)
  Annotated Bibliography
• Motivational Interviewing (with a Criminal Justice Focus) Annotated Bibliography
• Motivational Interviewing in Corrections: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing MI in Corrections
• Objective Jail Classification Systems: A Guide for Jail Administrators
• Objective Prison Classification: A Guide for Correctional Agencies
• Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings, 2nd Edition #031373
• Prisoner Intake Systems: Assessing Needs and Classifying Prisoners
• Revalidating External Prison Classification Systems: The Experience of Ten States and Model for Classification Reform
• The Foundation of Practical Application of Risk, Need, and Responsivity in the Age of COVID-19 and Justice Reform
• Trauma Annotated Bibliography

Apex Guidebook Series

• Achieving Performance Excellence: The Influence of Leadership on Organizational Performance
• APEX Building the Model and Beginning the Journey
• APEX Resources Directory Volume 1
• APEX Resources Directory Volume 2
• Applying the APEX Tools for Organizational Assessment
• Culture and Change Management: Using APEX To Facilitate Organizational Change
• Understanding Corrections through the APEX Lens

Other Criminal Justice Resources

• Corrections Environmental Scan
  A Second Look at Alleviating Jail Crowding: A Systems Perspective (BJA)
  NCJ_1852507.pdf
• Building Culture Strategically: A Team Approach for Corrections
• Corrections Learning and Performance: A Vision for the 21st Century
• Family Connections Project Webinar Series
  • Communicating with Families and Children in Correctional Facilities, Part 1
  • Communicating with Families and Children in Correctional Facilities, Part 2
  • Model Practices for Parents in Prisons and Jails: Building Partnerships and Innovative Practices, Part 3
• Getting It Right: Collaborative Problem Solving for Criminal Justice
• Green Corrections Project, The: Action Plans and Lessons Learned
• Green Corrections Symposium Notes
• Green Corrections: Resources for Criminal Justice Professionals and Community Partners
• Greening Corrections: People, Programs, and Practices
• Greening of Corrections, The: Creating a Sustainable System
• Guidelines for Developing a Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
• Health Reform and Public Safety: New Opportunities, Better Outcomes
• Mapping the Criminal Justice System to Connect Justice-Involved Individuals with Treatment and Health Care under the Affordable Care Act
• National Institute of Corrections Report to the Nation FY 2014: Learn, Achieve, Perform
• National Institute of Corrections Report to the Nation FY 2018: Results and Innovations
• Performance Based Measurement System: What Really Counts in Corrections!
• Promising and Innovative Practices for Children of Incarcerated Parents: [Webinar]
• Reduce Costs, Lower Risks, Enhance Healthcare Services: The Promise of Effective Pharmaceutical Management
• Religion in Corrections: Offenders’ Rights, Your Responsibility
• Resilience in Corrections: A Proactive Approach to Changing Conditions
• Sharing Gang Intelligence Bridging the Gap: Corrections - Police - Educators [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]
• Video Visiting in Corrections: Benefits, Limitations, and Implementing Considerations

• Assessment, Your Library, and Your Collections [Webinar]
• How To Use Research in Practice [Webinar]
• Measuring the Effect of Library Usage [Webinar]
• Offender Use of the Library [Webinar]
• Working Effectively with the Law Library [Webinar]

• A Framework for Evidence-Based Decision Making in State and Local Criminal Justice Systems [4th Ed]

• Effective Clinical Practices in Treating Clients in the Criminal Justice System

• Evaluation of Phase II Technical Assistance for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems

• Evidence-Based Decision Making from Principle to Practice

• Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems Initiative

• Evidence-Based Practice Skills Assessment for Criminal Justice Organizations, Version 1.0

• Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Recidivism: Implications for State Judiciaries

• Evidence-Based Practice: Principles for Enhancing Correctional Results in Prisons

• Evidence-Based Practices and Criminal Defense: Opportunities, Challenges, and Practical Considerations

• Evidence-Based Practices in the Criminal Justice System: An Annotated Bibliography

• Implementing Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Community Corrections [2nd ed]

• Legal & Evidence-Based Practices: Application of Legal Principles, Laws, and Research to the Field of Pretrial Services

• Our System of Corrections: Do Jails Play a Role in Improving Offender Outcomes?

• Putting the Pieces Together: Practical Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices

• The Foundation of Practical Application of Risk, Need, and Responsivity in the Age of COVID-19 and Justice Reform

• Using Research to Promote Public Safety: A Prosecutor's Primer on Evidence-Based Practice

• Agenda Jail PIO Network Meeting 2017 [Proceedings]
• Beyond the Myths: The Jail in Your Community (23-Minute Video)
• Direct Supervision Jails: The Role of the Administrator
• How to Collect and Analyze Data: A Manual for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators [3rd ed.]
• Inmate Behavior Management - Northampton County Jail Case Study
• Inmate Behavior Management - Brazos County Jail Case Study
• Inmate Behavior Management - Guide to Meeting Basic Needs
• Inmate Behavior Management - Defining and Conveying Expectations
• Jail Crowding: Understanding Jail Population Dynamics
• Jail Inspection Basics: An Introductory Self-Study Course for Jail Inspectors [2nd ed.]
• Jail Inspection Basics: Supervisors Guide
• Jail PIO Network Meeting [Proceedings]
• Jail Standards and Inspection Programs: Resource and Implementation Guide
• Jails in America: A Report on Podular Direct Supervision
• Legal Issues in Jails-2013
• Programs and Activities: Tools for Managing Inmate Behavior
• Resource Manual for Transition to a New Jail
• Running an Intelligent Jail: A Guide to the Development and Use of a Jail Information System
• The Mentally Ill in Jail: Whose Problem Is It Anyway?

• Barracks Behind Bars

• Law Enforcement Officers Respecting Service, Restoring Honor for Vets in Crisis

• Veterans Treatment Courts: A Second Chance for Vets Who Have Lost Their Way [Internet Broadcast]

NOTE: This page contains links to websites that are not managed by NIC. NIC is not responsible for the content found on these websites.

• A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Youth Confinement Facilities

• Desktop Guide to Quality Practice for Working with Youth in Confinement

• Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Toolkit for Juvenile Agencies and Facilities

• Juvenile Justice Annotated Bibliography

• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report

• Keeping Our Kids Safe: The Prison Rape Elimination Act and Juvenile Justice: A Guide for Juvenile Justice Administrators
  You may also request the PREA resource disk from the help desk

• Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents

• (PH)REAL: PHilosophy, Relationship, Equipping, Attitude and Leadership

• 2016 NIC Learning and Performance Symposium: Interactive Instruction Ignites Learning Proceedings Document

• Achieving Performance Excellence: The Influence of Leadership on Organizational Performance

• Correctional Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century: Executives and Senior-Level Leaders

• Correctional Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century: Manager and Supervisor Levels

• Corrections Stress Needs Assessment

• Corrections Stress: Peaks and Valleys

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • What’s Your Eye Chart Saying? How Our Beliefs Filter Our Views, Part 1

  • Building Inclusion Across Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Part 2

  • A Leader’s Role in Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Culture, Part 3

  • That’s DOPE – Making Every Voice Count!, Part 4

• Leadership: Selected Resources for Criminal Justice Professionals

• Occupational Stressors in Corrections Organizations: Types, Effects and Solutions

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2011 March

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2011 September

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2012 March

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2012 September

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2013 September

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2014 March

• Proceedings from the NIC Large Jail Network Meetings: 2014 September

• Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting Aurora, Colorado, March 21-22, 2016

• Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting: September 2017

• Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Staff

• The Corrections Profession: Maintaining Safety and Sanity, Part 1

• The Corrections Profession: Maintaining Safety and Sanity, Part 2

• The Mindful Supervisor

• The Norval Morris Project At the National Institute of Corrections

• Transformational Leadership: How to Lead Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization Series

  • Learning to Lead from the Inside Out, Part 1

  • Learning to Value Your Employees, Part 2

  • Learning to Drive Meaningful Change, Part 3

• Crisis Intervention Teams: An Effective Response to Mental Illness in Corrections

• Health, Justice, Women: Behavioral Health and OB/GYN

• Health, Justice, Women: Transforming Systems - Changing Lives

• Hepatitis C in Corrections: Innovations in Treatment and Management of a Public Health Challenge [Internet Broadcast]

• Losing Time: Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Behind Bars #032785

• Prescription Drugs of Abuse and Misuse in Jails and Prisons [Webinar]

• Preventing and Controlling Hepatitis A in Jails and Prisons [Webinar]

• Putting the Science into Self-Injury Risk Assessment and Prevention

• Solving the Dilemma of Self-Injurious Behavior in the Incarcerated Population

Parole Essential Series

• Core Competencies: A Resource for Parole Board Chairs, Members, and Executive Staff

• Evidence-Based Policy, Practice, and Decision-making: Implications for Paroling Authorities

• HOPE Probation: Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement 

• Paroling Authorities’ Strategic Planning and Management for Results

• Special Challenges Facing Parole

• The Future of Parole as a Key Partner in Assuring Public Safety

Other Community Resources

• Adults with Behavioral Health Needs Under Correctional Supervision

• A Shared Framework for Reducing Recidivism and Promoting Recovery

• Analysis of the Use of the Structured Decision-making Framework in Three States

• Behavior Management of Justice-Involved Individuals: Contemporary Research and State-of-the-Art Policy and Practice

• Best Practices in the Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management of Persons Who Have Sexually Offended

• Case Study: New York City Department of Probation’s Federal Partnership Efforts:
  Profile of a Successful Technical Assistance Collaboration With the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Institute of Corrections

• Civil Liabilities and Other Legal Issues for Probation/Parole Officers and Supervisors: 4th Edition

• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment: A Review and Discussion for Corrections Professionals

• Community Corrections Collaborative Network: Safe and Smart Ways to Solve America’s Correctional Challenges

• Comprehensive Framework for Paroling Authorities in an Era of Evidence-Based Practices

• Dosage Probation: Rethinking the Structure of Probation Sentences

• Future Force: A Guide to Building the 21st Century Community Corrections Workforce

• Get Smart About Rewards and Sanctions: The Facts about Contingency Management

• Improving Outcomes for People with Mental Illnesses Under Community Corrections Supervision
  A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and Practice

• Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses
  The Essential Elements of Specialized Probation Initiatives

• Motivating Offenders to Change: A Guide for Probation and Parole

• New Approaches to Staff Safety [2nd ed.]

• Parole Violations Revisited

• Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers: Selected Resources Annotated Bibliography

• Responding to Parole & Probation Violations

• Sharing Gang Intelligence Bridging the Gap: Corrections - Police - Educators [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

• Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Incorporating Science Into Practice

• A Framework for Evidence-Based Decision Making in State and Local Criminal Justice Systems [4th Ed]

• A Framework for Pretrial Justice: Essential Elements of an Effective Pretrial System and Agency

• Applying Evidence-Based Practices in Pretrial Services

• Assessing Local Pre-Trial Justice Functions: A Handbook for Providing Technical Assistance

• COVID-19: How are Pretrial Service Agencies Dealing with the Coronavirus?

• Measuring for Results: Outcome and Performance Measures for Pretrial Diversion Field

• Measuring What Matters: Outcome and Performance Measures for the Pretrial Services Field

• Measuring What Matters: Outcome and Performance Measures for the Pretrial Services Field

• NAPSA Standards on Pretrial Release

• Pretrial Justice: How to Maximize Public Safety, Court Appearance and Release [Internet Broadcast]

• Pretrial Justice: Principles and Practice (Corrections Today, June 2007)

• pretrial-justice-principles-practice.pdf

• Pretrial Release and Probation: What is the Same and What is Different?

• Pretrial Services Programming at the Start of the 21st Century: A Survey of Pretrial Services Programs (BJA) (ncj-199773.pdf)

• Pretrial Services Programs: Responsibilities and Potential (NIJ) (ncj-181939.pdf)

• Using Front End Interventions To Achieve Public Safety And Healthy Communities

• A Guide to Preparing for and Responding to Prison Emergencies
• Correctional Health Care: Addressing the Needs of Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Terminally Ill Inmates [2004 ed]
• Effective Prison Mental Health Services: Guidelines to Expand and Improve Treatment [2004 ed.]
• Objective Prison Classification: A Guide for Correctional Agencies
• Prison Staffing Analysis: A Training Manual with Staffing Considerations for Special Populations
• Restrictive Housing: An Annotated Bibliography #032646
• Restrictive Housing: Roadmap to Reform [Internet Broadcast]
• Undue Familiarity: Do You Believe You Can Never Be Comprised?

Message from a previous NIC Director:

On September 4, 2003, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) into law. As a part of the law, Congress charged the National Institute of Corrections with a variety of tasks to assist the field of corrections. Included among these are the provision of training and education about the law and the issue which prompted its passage.

A key element of providing this assistance is to build our relevant knowledge about sexual assault in correctional institutions. While it is important to identify and hear from various experts, it is equally important to understand the issue from the perspective of correctional staff. To begin collecting input and information the decision was made early in NIC’s PREA Initiative to conduct a series of focus groups at several facilities around the country.

Achieving a regional balance, NIC identified and worked with a variety of prisons and jails, both large and small. Focus groups were conducted with facility executive staff, mid-managers, line officers, and administrative and support staff who perform an array of functions. The participants responded to several questions regarding the problems they encounter in preventing or responding to an incident, and described any successes their agencies had addressing the issue. Questions regarding the dynamics explored what the participants knew generally about sexual assault, plus what procedures had been put in place and what training had been received. These discussions yielded a rich source of information directly from the field about attitudes, knowledge, and current practices.

Staff Perspectives on Sexual Violence in Adult Prisons and Jails: Trends from Focus Group Interviews is an overview of this work and the first volume in a series of bulletins. In addition to key findings, it presents staff views on policy and training, inmate culture, causes and conditions, assault indicators, characteristics of victims and perpetrators, inmate orientation, investigations and prosecutions, and issues regarding responding to sexual violence. It is hoped that these ideas and recommendations will assist you and your agency as you develop strategies to address the problem of sexual violence in correctional institutions.

~ Morris L. Thigpen, Sr.

• Addressing Sexual Violence Against Youth in Custody
  Youth Workers’ Handbook on Identifying and Addressing Sexual Violence in Juvenile Justice Settings

• Breaking the Code of Silence: Correction Officers' Handbook on Identifying and Addressing Sexual Misconduct

• Fifty-State Survey Criminal Laws Prohibiting Sexual Abuse of Individuals in Custody

• Fifty-State Survey Vulnerable Persons Statutes

• Fifty-State Survey Mandatory Reporting Statutes

• Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Toolkit for Jails

• Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Toolkit for Juvenile Agencies and Facilities

• PREA Resources 1 Disk Set

• Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Considerations for Policy Review

• Standards for Adult Prisons and Jails with Immigration Supplement

• Standards for Community Corrections

• Standards for Juvenile Facilities

• Standards for Lockups

• Administrative Guide: Offender Workforce Development Specialist Partnership Training Program

• An Opinion Survey of the Community Corrections Collaborative Network: Where the Community Corrections Field Is Going and What It Needs to Get There

• Building Tomorrow's Workforce: An Effective Reentry Strategy [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

• Career Resource Centers: An Emerging Strategy for Improving Offender Employment Outcomes

• Correctional Industries: A Working Solution

• CSG Justice Center Reentry Mythbusters
  Reentry MythBusters are fact sheets designed to clarify existing federal policies that affect formerly incarcerated individuals and their families in areas such as public housing, employment, parental rights, Medicaid suspension/termination, voting rights and more.

• Employment Retention Inventory Explores the Predictive Factors of Job Loss: Research Project

• Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Guide for Victim Service Providers

• Increasing Public Safety Through Successful Offender Reentry: Evidence-Based and Emerging Practices in Corrections

• Myths & Facts - Using Risk and Need Assessments to Enhance Outcomes and Reduce Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

• Myths & Facts - Why Incarceration Is Not the Best Way to Keep Communities Safe
  North Carolina Transition Document Envelope

• North-Carolina-Transition-Document-Envelope.pdf

• Offender Employment Retention: Worth the Work [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

• Reentry Annotated Bibliography

• Offender Reentry: The Value of Victim Involvement [Internet Broadcast]

• Process and Systems Change Evaluation Findings from the Transition to Jail Community Initiative

• Replication Validation of the Employment Retention Inventory
  An Assessment Tool of the National Institute of Corrections

• Sustaining Systems Change: Findings from a Transition from Jail to Community Initiative Stakeholder Survey

• The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals
  Use Labor Market Information to Target High-Growth Occupations

• The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals
  Address Employers' Needs and Expectations

• The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals
  Prepare Job Seekers for Employment

• The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals
  Engage and Partner with Stakeholders

• TPC Case Management Handbook: An Integrated Case Management Approach

• TPC Reentry Handbook: Implementing the NIC Transition from Prison to the Community

• Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) Initiative Phase 2 Site Reports
  This zip contains multiple reports.

• Women and Work: Gender Responsivity and Workforce Development [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

Promising Practices and Future Directions

Co-Sponsored by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

September 9-10, 2015 National Corrections Academy - Aurora, Colorado

Notes From Day One

Reentry Symposium 2015 Day One Notes.pdf

Reentry Presentations

• Aging Elderly and Incarcerated

• Arizona DOC Mental Health Disorders and the Criminal Justice System [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• ASCA Performance Based Measures System [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Creating Vital Community Partnerships [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• CSOSA Reentry Presentation [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Facilitating Successful Reentry - Federal Bureau of Prisons [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Importance of Individualized Sex Offender Assessment [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Iowa DOC Reentry of Offenders with Serious Mental Health Disorders [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Just Leadership USA [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Live Webinar Event for the Release of NIC Publication "Veterans Treatment Courts: A Second Chance for Vets Who Have Lost Their Way #032786 [Satellite/Internet Broadcast

• Michigan Prisoner Reentry [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Minnesota DOC Transition from Prison to Community [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• National Reentry Landscape [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• National Reentry Symposium - Goals Mimi Carter [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• NIC Health Reform and Public Safety [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• NIC LGBTI In-Custody Populations [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• NIC Reentry-Justice Involved Women [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• NIC Transformational Workforce Development: The Role of Education and Employment in Supporting Success [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• North Carolina DPS Passing the Baton from Inside to Outside [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• North Carolina Transition Document Envelope

• North Dakota Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Reentry Aging and End of Life Offenders [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Reentry Efforts for the Elderly Prison Population [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Roger Przybylski - EBP Presentation [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Roger Przybylski - Implementing Evidence Based Practices

• The National Reentry Symposium 2015 [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• Veterans Reentry Policies and Practices [PowerPoint presentation converted to pdf]

• DV/IPV: Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence

• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report

• Recommendations for Practice: Post-Conviction Victims' Rights and Services

• Work with Victims of Crime: An Integrated Approach for Community Supervision Professionals

• Becoming Trauma Informed: An Essential Element for Justice Settings

  • The Association between ACEs and Criminal Justice Involvement, Part 1

  • Trauma-Informed Treatment and Theory, Part 2

  • Becoming Trauma Informed and Moving to Trauma Responsive, Part 3

• A Summary of Research, Practice & Guiding Principles for Women Offenders

• Achieving Accurate Pictures of Risk and Identifying Gender Responsive Needs
  Two New Assessments for Women Offenders

• Collaborative Case Work with Justice Involved Women

• Critical Issues Impacting Women in the Justice System: A Literature Review

• Employment and Female Offenders
  An Update of the Empirical Research

• Facility Planning to Meet the Needs of Female Inmates

• Gender-Responsive Policy & Practice Assessment (GRPPA)
  The GRPPA outlines the process of evaluating the gender-responsiveness of policies and programs for women.

• Gender-Responsive Policy Development in Corrections: What We Know and Roadmaps for Change

• Health, Justice, Women: Behavioral Health and OB/GYN

• Health, Justice, Women: Transforming Systems - Changing Lives

• Pregnancy and Child Related Legal and Policy Issues Concerning Justice-Involved Women

• Research, Practice & Guiding Principles for Women Offenders

• Responding to Women Offenders: The Department of Women's Justice Services in Cook County, Illinois

• Supervision of Women Defendants & Offenders in the Community

• Systemic Criminal Justice Planning: Improving Responses to Women Offenders in Hamilton County, Ohio

• The Gender-Responsive Strategies Project: Jail Applications

• Using Jail Exit Surveys to Improve Community Responses to Women Offenders

• Women Offender Case Management Model