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correctional

(US) of or relating to the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals.

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* American Correctional Food Services Association, Annual Conference, Aug.

Corrections calendar

The employee has been with Correctional Services of Canada since 1995.

Education aid for visible minorities staff not discriminatory, board rules

He goes on to add, Improving the criminal justice system and the correctional industry is a heavy lift that requires all parties including lawmakers, victims rights advocates, law enforcement, and non-profits to work together to make our communities safer.

United States : Commissioner Parker Elected ACA President-Elect

Graduates have successfully completed the Correctional Officer Training and Assessment (COTA) program - a comprehensive eight-week program that includes mental health training, Indigenous cultural training, inmate management techniques and ongoing training and job coaching following deployment.

Canada : Forty-Seven New Correctional Officers Graduate

In 2008 and 2009, correctional officers missed more days away from work than any other state government employee.

The Neutral Zone

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan 17 ( ANI ): Prisoners of Kolkata's Presidency correctional home on Wednesday attacked the officials and tried to torch a portion of the jail when they were being shifted to Hooghly correctional home.

Prisoners in Kolkata jail attack cops

Correctional nursing emerged as a specialty in 1976 when the United States Supreme Court in Estelle v Gamble determined that; "Failure to provide adequate health care to individuals confined in correctional institutions violated a prisoners' constitutional rights." Information regarding the number of nurses currently practicing in a corrections environment is limited making it difficult to monitor trends and growth.

Correctional nurses--time to overcome the stigma!

Many elements within the correctional environment contribute to job stress.

The impact of gender on correctional employee perceptions of work stress

The project's overall goal is to improve correctional education and its delivery by providing objective, empirical evidence about the efficacy of different programs and their curricular components.

RAND Corporation in partnership with CEA is undertaking a federal project on correctional education

Although it is known that many persons under community supervision need and eventually want correctional education programs, little is known about the providers and characteristics of these educational programs.

Community-Based Correctional Education

"The federal prison system has practices that discriminate against Aboriginal offenders," Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers says in his Annual Report of the Corrections Ombudsman.

Correction service practices discriminate against Aboriginals

Correctional facilities house a disproportionate number of HIV-infected persons, and most do not provide inmates with condoms.