ABSTRACT
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN)—a network representing community corrections professionals—commissioned a position paper to explore the successes and challenges facing the community corrections field. The position paper, Community Corrections Collaborative Network: Safe and Smart Ways To Solve America’s Correctional Challenges, finds that community corrections are a critical part of the public safety system that supervises individuals under the legal authority in the community to reduce crime and victimization.
Community corrections are changing lives, reducing harm, and helping build communities, and they have strong public support. To succeed in the future, community corrections and their partners need to refocus resources on approaches that are proven to work; change laws, policies, and practices that do not work; target treatment and supervision only to those who need it; and reallocate resources appropriately. Also to succeed in the future, community corrections and their partners need to expand the capacity of the field to take on new challenges and designate resources appropriately.
CCCN comprises the leading associations representing probation, parole, pretrial, and treatment professionals around the country, including the American Probation and Parole Association, the Association of Paroling Authorities International, the International Community Corrections Association, the National Association of Pretrial Service Agencies, and the National Association of Probation Executives.
This technical assistance activity was funded by the Community Services Division of the National Institute of Corrections. NIC is a federal agency established to provide assistance to strengthen state and local correctional agencies by creating more effective, humane, safe, and just correctional services.
The Community Corrections Collaborative Network would also like to acknowledge and thank the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) and American Paroling Authorities International (APAI) for its contribution to the project. APPA volunteered to design the position paper and executive summary and APAI volunteered to design the logo for the CCCN.
Onsite technical assistance was provided through a cooperative agreement at the request of the National Institute of Corrections. The direct onsite assistance and the subsequent report are intended to assist the agency in addressing issues outlined in the original request and in efforts to enhance the agency’s effectiveness.
The National Institute of Corrections reserves the right to reproduce, publish, translate, or otherwise use and to authorize others to publish and use all or any part of the copyrighted material contained in this publication.
To read the position paper in full, or view the executive summary, please click on the links below:
Main document link: http://static.nicic.gov/UserShared/2013-06-20_cccn_main_document_final.pdf
Executive summary link: http://static.nicic.gov/UserShared/2013-08-19_cccn_executive__summary_final_amodified_1_(1).pdf
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Greg Crawford at: gcrawford@bop.gov