Recent Posts by dpdpar5
Mar 13, 2011
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Topic: Everything Education / Reentry practices, concerns You are at least currently right. Re entry presently is a joke as indicated by the costs with and high rates of recidivism. |
Mar 13, 2011
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Topic: Everything Education / Need to measure success of offender programs? I have been in corrections casework for about 20 years in some capacity and in all that time I have seen many programs implemented. There are infact several factors that determine the success of a program—staff quality—legitimacy of the program and agency committment to it— the reliability and validity of the instrument tool utilized for measurement. |
Sep 22, 2009
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Topic: The Club House / Specific Interview Questions Many people don’t even consider corrections as a career path. I’m glad to hear of your choice. It is truely a noble undertaking. I sincerely hope you find more satisfaction than disappointment. You will get out of your career what you put into it. Daniel P. Downen M.S. AJ/S |
Mar 02, 2009
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Topic: Juvenile Jam / suicidal juveniles Dear mamak; It is true that most suicide attempts are simply an attention getting ploy. Yet some are genuinely considering self harm and some are set on it due to depression or other serious mental dysfunction. The real and most compelling problem I take with this issue is that most co’s and dentention officers are in fact insufficiently trained and unprepared to effective intervene. |
Jan 29, 2009
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Topic: A Broader View / Do treatment programs reduce recidivism? The most obvious agents of change, the people in the trenches working every day and all day with offenders are co’s. These practitioners have the greatest potential for facilitating rehabilitation as they have the most contact with offenders. Yet, they are so poorly trained and unprepared for the overwhelming job of dealing with an inmate population, most of which are dealing with some form of mental dysfunction. No wonder burnout, absenteeism and personal problems are experienced by staff. Daniel Downen M.S. AJ/S |
Jan 29, 2009
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Topic: A Broader View / Do treatment programs reduce recidivism? The real and more compelling question for me is, do we as a correctional profession really dedicate ourselves to the concept of rehabilitation or is our efforts perfunctory? |