Cover: Interactive Tool for Ranking Corrections Innovation Needs

Interactive Tool for Ranking Corrections Innovation Needs

by Brian A. Jackson, Dulani Woods

Institutional and community corrections agencies face increasingly complex tasks and challenges today. It is important, therefore, to identify opportunities where changes in tools, technology, practices, or approaches can help agencies respond more effectively to solve problems and mitigate risks in their role to protect the public. Given resource constraints, setting priorities among many possible innovations is necessary. This interactive tool allows users to leverage the research in Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections: Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector and also to see how the identified priorities would change, based on their own policies and/or organizational priorities.

Corrections Innovations Needs Tool

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