What's Your Story?

Do you have a story to share? An experience that can help others? For every success, for every failure,
for every lesson learned, there is a story to be told.

Innovative approaches and solutions that address operations, staff training and retention, inmate 
programming, healthcare, and other equally important issues are being developed in jail facilities across the Nation.

Now is the time to consider penning an article in American Jails magazine to tell your story… how you went
from having a problem to how you found a solution. Your experiences and expertise can greatly assist
individual agencies in particular, and the field of local corrections in general.

For more information about submitting an article or guest editorial, please review our submission guidelines here, or click here to e-mail Sandra Lunsford.

First Step Act passes Senate

The U.S. Senate voted late Tuesday to approve the First Step Act, the first major rewrite of the nation's criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation. The bipartisan bill passed 87-12 and now goes to the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote, where it is expected to pass. President Donald Trump has supported the measure and said he would sign it into law. “This is an important piece of legislation that will begin to address some of the issues we have recognized in our criminal justice system,” American Jail Association President Ronaldo Myers said Wednesday morning. "We applaud the U.S. Senate for acting quickly on this bill and look forward to House passage later this week.” Visit the First Step Act website.

Email Phishing Scam Alert: Please use caution when opening attachments in emails from American Jail Staff. Due to a recent “Disputed Payment” type of email phishing scam, many emails are being sent with potentially harmful attachments falsely using AJA’s staff email addresses. In order to protect our members, all legitimate invoices from the American Jail Association will be sent as both as an attachment and will be visible in the body of the email.

There are more than 3,500 local jails and correctional institutions throughout the United States.
The American Jail Association offers a career resource center for any individual who is seeking
a position in the corrections field.  Successful candidates possess superior skills, integrity, and
knowledge. 

Do you want to post a career position?  Please click here to complete your posting.

Please click here to enter the Career Center.

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