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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Corrections</title>
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     <updated>2012-05-24T14:24:22Z</updated>
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   <title type="html">A Final Word on the NDAA</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/05/06/FA.html</id>
   <published>May 6, 2012</published>
   <updated>May 6, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">While I have no doubt of Levin&apos;s determination to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens, incremental adjustments and seemingly small compromises, each sensible under the circumstances, can have a cumulative effect that erodes the very liberty we are trying to protect, writes Brian Michael Jenkins.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The NDAA Makes It Harder to Fight Terrorism</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/02/01/FA.html</id>
   <published>Feb 1, 2012</published>
   <updated>Feb 1, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">Much of the debate over this bill has focused on the political issue of executive authority versus rule of law. In doing so it has overlooked the indirect and insidious effects the new law may have on the United States&apos; largely successful counterterrorist campaign, writes Brian Michael Jenkins.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR988.html</id>
   <published>Jan 24, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 24, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009&amp;ndash;2010, Corrections Standards Authority&#8211;mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Evaluation of the Social Impact Bond: Lessons from planning and early implementation at HMP Peterborough</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9637.html</id>
   <published>Dec 14, 2011</published>
   <updated>Dec 14, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">RAND Europe has evaluated the world&apos;s first Social Impact Bond (SIB), an innovative payment-by-results mechanism to fund public services which aims to reduce reoffending by prisoners. This report presents the initial findings of the evaluation.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Investing in Social Outcomes to Fund Public Services</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1166.html</id>
   <published>Nov 7, 2011</published>
   <updated>Nov 7, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">At a time when government finances are stretched there is growing interest in finding new ways to fund public services. In 2010 the first ever Social Impact Bond was launched in the UK to provide investors who had funded government interventions for imprisoned offenders with a portion of the resultant savings.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Making the Civil Justice System More Efficient and Equitable</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/law-business-regulation/centers/civil-justice.html</id>
   <published>Oct 3, 2011</published>
   <updated>Oct 3, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) conducts research on all aspects of civil justice, from trends in litigation and jury verdicts to punitive damages, compensation systems, and alternative dispute resolution. Directly or indirectly, civil justice issues have an impact on us all. </summary>
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   <title type="html">California&apos;s Prisoner Shuffle</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/08/19/LAT.html</id>
   <published>Aug 19, 2011</published>
   <updated>Aug 19, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The state needs to deal with prison overcrowding and inadequate medical care for prisoners in ways that don&apos;t simply transfer the burden to county criminal justice systems and the healthcare safety nets of local communities, writes Lois Davis.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prison as Indoctrination Center</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/04/26/NYT.html</id>
   <published>Apr 26, 2011</published>
   <updated>Apr 26, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Taliban view incarceration foremost as a means to attract new recruits and enhance the jihadist resolve and ideological purity of their own members, writes Arturo Munoz.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Current State of Quality of Care Measurement in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110091.html</id>
   <published>Mar 31, 2011</published>
   <updated>Mar 31, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">California&apos;s prisons, which are operating under receivership for medical care, need help in improving the quality of health care they provide.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Selecting Performance Indicators for Prison Health Care</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110079.html</id>
   <published>Mar 31, 2011</published>
   <updated>Mar 31, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">Prison health institutions, like all other large health institutions, need robust measurement systems. The indicators presented in this article provide a basic library for prison health managers developing such systems.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR832.html</id>
   <published>Oct 5, 2010</published>
   <updated>Oct 5, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2008&#8211;2009, Corrections Standards Authority-mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Reform or Radicalisation?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP602z6.html</id>
   <published>Mar 11, 2010</published>
   <updated>Mar 11, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Is prison a training ground for extremists? RAND Europe explores radicalisation and recruitment in European prisons.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR746.html</id>
   <published>Jan 12, 2010</published>
   <updated>Jan 12, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes outcome measures from each of the programs for fiscal year 2007-2008.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Record on Research About Criminal Behavior Corrected</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/07/24.html</id>
   <published>Jul 24, 2009</published>
   <updated>Jul 24, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">News materials distributed by the several law enforcement groups in California about the state&apos;s proposed budget have incorrectly cited RAND Corporation criminal justice research.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Can Gitmo&apos;s Terrorists Be Rehabilitated?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/06/29/CSM.html</id>
   <published>Jun 28, 2009</published>
   <updated>Jun 28, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Before he closes Guant&amp;aacute;namo, Obama must take a clear-eyed look at the record &amp;ndash; and anticipate the next chapter of the fight against terrorism. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guant&amp;aacute;namo Bay, asks Aidan Kirby Winn.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Assessing Parolees&apos; Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9458.html</id>
   <published>Jun 17, 2009</published>
   <updated>Jun 17, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;California parolees&apos; health care, mental health care, and drug- and alcohol-treatment needs, as well as where parolees go when they return to counties, place significant demands on counties&apos; safety-net resources and on their ability meet those needs.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/06/11.html</id>
   <published>Jun 11, 2009</published>
   <updated>Jun 11, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.</summary>
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   <title type="html">California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR687.html</id>
   <published>Jun 10, 2009</published>
   <updated>Jun 10, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Most Adolescents Placed into Group Homes Still Involved with Drugs or Crime Seven Years Later</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/03/19.html</id>
   <published>Mar 19, 2009</published>
   <updated>Mar 19, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">Most adolescents referred to long-term group homes in Los Angeles County after being charged with a serious offense reported they were still involved with crime or drugs seven years later.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Previously Deported Immigrants More Likely to Be Rearrested After Leaving Jail</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2008/09/08.html</id>
   <published>Sep 8, 2008</published>
   <updated>Sep 8, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Deportable immigrants who previously have been expelled from the United States are more likely to be rearrested on suspicion of committing a crime after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without the prior history of expulsion.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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