This Week's Corrections Connection
Thursday | March 6, 2008
EDITOR'S CORNER
One's faith can be complicated enough, but trying to discuss it or encourage others to follow it is a slippery slope unto itself. Millions around the world claim that their faith is the cornerstone to how they live. It has brought them salvation or changed their lives in some way. It is this message that today's faith organizations want to bring into prisons and jails. Yet, they find a difficult hurdle to get by when it comes to state run facilities.
Even though these organizations might be able to help inmates, the mix of church and state is either banned or just too muddled for some departments. Despite this, it would seem that every one has a right to practice their faith regardless of where it happens. This week's feature by reporter Ann Coppola explores these issues.
Jim
Editor, Corrections.com
FEATURED STORY
Keeping the faith
By Ann Coppola
Believing to believe
Political pundits say they can’t remember a U.S. presidential campaign where religion became such a lightning-rod issue so early on, if even for a short time. Between Mitt Romney’s Mormonism and the Mike Huckabee Christmas ad telling everyone “what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ,” it seemed that faith was going to be a major presence on the campaign trail.
While that issue may have faded with the candidates, the role of religion in offender rehabilitation is drawing some politicking of its own. The federal government demonstrated its own faith in correctional “faith-based programming” this past fall when the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiative hosted the first ever White House National Summit on Prisoner Reentry. Full Story
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CAREER WATCH
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EVENTS
National Organization of Hispanics in Criminal Justice Conference
The National Organization of Hispanics in Criminal Justice welcomes your participation at their second national conference to be held at the Florida Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, Florida from April 28 through May 1, 2008.
NOHCJ’s conference will be an opportunity to receive training from experienced speakers, discuss issues and ideas with other correctional professionals, and increase the effectiveness of all criminal justice personnel through exposure to new and established exhibitors. Lt. Colonel Consuelo Castillo Kickusch, U.S. Army Combat Support Field (Retired), the highest ranking Hispanic woman, will be the keynote speaker.
Click here to preview the NOHCJ conference, access the registration form and review the exhibitor invitation. Submit your forms today!!
NOHCJ’s second national training conference is April 28 through May 1, 2008, at the Florida Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, Florida. Don't miss it!!
Anger Management Continuing Education
Date: 3/18 - 19/08
Each participant will have the opportunity to complete the Emotional Intelligence Profile, which consists of an assessment system linked to a skill enhancement system. More
National Gang Conference, Gangs Across America
Date: 3/20 - 21/08
GangsAcrossAmerica.com is a website and intelligence group created by cops for cops and it is holding an intensive gang information-sharing conference on March 20th and 21st, 2008 in Las Vegas. This is the only conference that brings together the most respected and experienced gang experts from across America! More
Verbal Judo - Excellence in Tactical Communications
Date: 4/14/08
Goals Of This Course - Conflict Management, Enhance Personal Safety, Diffuse Potentially Dangerous Situations, and more. More
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
- E.B. White (1899 - 1985), U.S. author & humorist
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