- Resources for Indian Country Jails: Selected Biography From the NIC Information Center Collection is compilation of information to assist Indian country jails in their management of incarcerated offenders and those who will return to either a community or a tribal community.
- National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has ongoing Adult and Juvenile Training Programs which provide management and specialty training for practitioners working in state and local adult corrections throughout the U.S. and its commonwealths and territories. It also provides training for juvenile justice, Federal prison system, and military corrections practitioners through interagency agreements. Training is provided in the areas of correctional leadership, facility management, offender management and programming, and trainer development/training capacity building.
- Jurisdictional Technical Assistance Package for Juvenile Corrections (2001) (In PDF 2575 K) - This manual provides jurisdictions with guidance in assessing local needs for juvenile corrections technical assistance and committing available resources to address those needs.
- Training and Technical Assistance for National Innovations to Reduce Disproportionate Minority Confinement - A Web site to help State and local jurisdictions reduce the overrepresentation of minority children and youth in secure detention and correctional facilities, jails, and lockups by providing them with information, training, and technical assistance that will enable them to successfully address the factors that contribute to the problem.
- Inmate Religious Beliefs and Practices - Practical guidelines to assist chaplains and administrative personnel to appropriately facilitate religious beliefs and practices for inmates.
- American Indian Suicides in Jail: Can Risk Screening Be Culturally Sensitive? - Do jail inmates' cultural backgrounds affect how they react to authorities' attempts to assess their risk for suicide? A recent NIJ study found that the screening questionnaire used by a county jail located near Indian lands failed to elicit direct responses about personal matters from American Indian detainees. Findings suggest that tailoring suicide risk assessment protocols to the cultural backgrounds of detainee populations might be more effective.
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