Corrections Connection: This Week In Corrections

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The Three C's (Computers, Crime and Corrections)

Facebook® vs. LinkedIn®

So corrections folks are perfectly willing to share on Facebook® very intimate details about themselves but on a site designed to help them in their jobs they become secret agents. What up with that?

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blogosphere

Just starting out

RonJr1970: we are ALL on basically the same page no matter where we work.
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By James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy, Northeastern University

There are times when online editions of newspapers deny readers the curious juxtapositions of stories found in print, unintended though they may be, that occasionally identify fascinating ironies in politics, current events or the social world.
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March – Security/Technology – New technology, conferences, managing gangs/threat groups [Please send your articles/stories to editor@corrections.com]

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Warden – Kansas – El Dorado Correctional Facility

The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) is accepting applications for an unclassified Warden position at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, El Dorado, KS. The city of El Dorado has the conveniences of a “full service” community and amenities of a major metropolitan area. El Dorado is located in south central Kansas twenty minutes from Wichita, KS. The Warden is an administrative position responsible for the total operation of a correctional facility with highly specialized, multiple security functions including the Department’s Reception & Diagnostic Unit.

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