Resolutions

Over the years, the American Jail Association has adopted a number of resolutions that call for the betterment of local corrections throughout the Nation. Each of those resolutions can be accessed individually by clicking on its link below.

• Accreditation
• Adult/Juvenile Offender Access to Telephones
• AIDS
• Breathing Emergencies Connected to Restraint
• Code of Ethics for Jail Officers
• Continuing Partnership Between Sam Houston State University, the Correctional Management Institute of Texas, and the American Jail Association’s National Jail Leadership Command Academy
• Core Jail Guidelines
• Correctional Officers’ Week
• Deflection Initiatives
• Designation of Correctional Officers as Sworn Members of the Criminal Justice Community and as First Responders in the Public Safety Community
• Direct Supervision Jails [Principles of Direct Supervision]
• Housing of Individuals with Mental Illness in America’s Jails
• Humane Interstate Transportation of Inmates
• Intermediate Sanctions
• Just, Reasonable, and Fair Rates for Inmate Calling Services (ICS)
• Juveniles in Jails
• Literacy and Education
• Mandatory Inclusion of Public Employees into the National Social Security System
• Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act
• National Academy of Corrections Funding
• National Commission on Correctional Health Care
• National Institure of Corrections Budget
• Pay Parity for Jail Officers/Deputies
• Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disorders (IDD) in American Jails 
• Practice of Strip Searches
• Pretrial Justice
• Pretrial Services
• Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
• Privatization of Jails
• Public Correctional Policy on Correctional Mental Health Care
• Reentry of Offenders
• Staffing of Jails
• Standards and Inspections
• State Yearly Jail Conferences
• Supporting a Respectful Workplace
• Treatment of Individuals with Opioid Use Disorders (MAT) in America's Jails
• Use of Restraints on Pregnant Inmates
• Use of Restrictive Housing
• Use of the Term “Guard”