In American Jails Magazine - Jail Staffing: The New Reality

Faced with continuing staffing shortfalls, managers must adjust policies and operations while still maintaining a safe and secure correctional environment during this time of "new reality." Our seventh staffing article confirms the challenges and suggests needed changes in policies and operations.
 
It is official: the field continues to face a staffing crisis. The U.S. Senate acknowledged a "national corrections staffing crisis" at the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary hearing on February 28, 2024. Former Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel told Senators: "The most significant challenge our correctional systems face is insufficient staffing. Inadequate staffing presently affects our local, state, and federal prisons and jails. And it is a problem that is not going to go away any time soon." Read More.

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Release of Four New Section 5121 Resources for Corrections on the New Continuity of Care Requirements for Incarcerated Youth

The Health and Reentry project, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and BJA National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) has developed new materials to help support the corrections field in implementing new continuity of care requirements for Medicaid and CHIP-eligible youth and young adults in correctional facilities. These resources provide correctional leaders with operational guidance on key elements of implementation, insights on where corrections administrators should start, answers to frequently asked questions about the policies, and targeted resources for sheriffs and jails. Read More.
 

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