Internal Prison Classification Systems: Case Studies in Their ...

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U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections

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Case Studies in Their Development and Implementation

U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections

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Morris L. Thigpen, Director Larry Solomon, Deputy Director Susan M. Hunter, Chief, Prisons Division Sammie D. Brown, Project Manager

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Internal Prison Classification Systems: Case Studies in Their Development and Implementation

Patricia L. Hardyman, Ph.D. James Austin, Ph.D. Jack Alexander, Ph.D.

Kelly Dedel Johnson, Ph.D. Owan C. Tulloch, M.C.P.

January 2002

The research for this report was funded by National Institute of Corrections under cooperative agreements #93P045HV5, 97P06GIE8, and 98P06GII0 with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and partially subcontracted to The George Washington University. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice or the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

Acknowledgments

We would like to sincerely acknowledge the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) for its continuing commitment to the development of the literature on internal classification systems. In particular, we want to acknowledge and thank our program manager, Sammie D. Brown, for her guidance, expertise, involvement, and patience with our efforts. Assisting The Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections (ICJC) in this work were Jack Alexander, James Aiken, and Lorraine Fowler, who provided a great deal of expertise in the development and implementation of these internal systems. The internal classification initiatives would have been fruitless without the dedication and endless hours of hard work expended by the steering committees from the state correctional agencies participating in these initiatives. It was their creativity, determination, and tenacity that created, tested, and refined the models. Thank you. The efforts were led by Brian Bemus, Jim Maras, and Brian Belleque in Oregon; Stan Repko and Michelle Ricci in New Jersey; S. Fred Roesel, Chuck Manning, and William Maust, Jr., in Florida; Jean Ann Johnson, Nick Noll, Mike Kemna, and Terry Page in Missouri; Laurie Feiler and Ed Ligtenberg in South Dakota; Major Christine Whidden in Connecticut; James Thatcher in Washington state; and Benjamin Griego, Warden Robert Furlong, and Captain Ron Carter in Colorado.

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