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The topic for the twenty-fourth television show produced by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is “Supervision and Treatment of Sex Offenders.”
The program is a combined effort of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) and the Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice.
The portal site for “DC Public Safety” television, radio, blog and transcripts is http://media.csosa.gov.
Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2013/03/supervision-and-treatment-of-sex-offenders-dc-public-safety-television/.
Current Television Program:
The program provides an overview of sex offender supervision and treatment strategies from a national and local perspective.
CSOSA adheres to state-of-the-art and evidence-based practices to both protect public safety and provide treatment strategies stabilizing the offender’s time in the community.
Participants-First segment:
Thomas Williams, Associate Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
Scott Matson, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
Participants-Second segment:
Dr. Celena Gates, Director of Treatment, Sex Offender Program, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
Thomas Williams, Associate Director Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
Special Announcements:
A top priority for Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice.
A new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the “What Works Clearinghouse” can be seen at http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works.
The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council.
Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm .
The Office of Violence Against Women offers stalking response tips for corrections, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, victims and victim advocates. They are posted on OVW’s website at www.ovw.usdoj.gov .
Correctional Social Media:
The Pew Center on the State’s Public Safety Performance Project offers a video on research to reduce recidivism as well as brief but powerful overviews of reentry and sentencing research. See http://www.pewstates.org/projects/public-safety-performance-project-328068 .
The U.S. DOJ Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships held two successful webinars on Faith and Community Based approaches to Reentry and Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives. Click the links below to watch/listen to these informative webinars.
- Faith and Community Based Approaches to Responsible Fatherhood and its Impact on Delinquency Prevention, see https://bjatraining.org/media/webinar/faith-and-community-based-approaches-responsible-fatherhood-and-its-impact-delinquency
- A Look at Faith & Community-Based Approaches to Offender Reentry, see https://bjatraining.org/media/webinar/look-faith-community-based-approaches-offender-reentry
The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on offender reentry. Please visit their website athttp://doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/ .
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services offers podcasts at http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/pio/podcasts.html.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections offers a YouTube channel at http://m.youtube.com/user/minnesotadoc .
The Facebook page for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections is https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhode-Island-Department-of-Corrections/400377866663063 .
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Facebook Page is http://www.facebook.com/cacorrections.
The Twitter page is http://twitter.com/cacorrections .
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency:
We welcome your comments or suggestions at mailto:leonard.sipes@csosa.gov .
The website for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is http://www.csosa.gov . The social media site is http://media.csosa.gov .
Television and radio programs are hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.
Comments offered on “DC Public Safety” television and radio programs are the opinions of participants and do not necessarily represent the policies of CSOSA or other government agencies.
