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Corrections Technology and Practice Can Be Represented as Five Main Categories

• Facility operations and population services
• Person-worn equipment and weapons/force
• Information and communications
• Vehicles
• Doctrine, tactics, management, and behavioral knowledge development and training

The Corrections Advisory Panel Identified 19 High-Priority Needs for Community Corrections and 29 for Institutional Corrections

• Most of the top-tier needs fell under one of two main taxonomy categories: (1) information and communications, and (2) doctrine, tactics, management, and behavioral knowledge development and training.
• Examples of high-priority technology needs included deception detection, new illegal drug detection tools, automated translation tools, various scanners and detectors for detecting weapons and other contraband materials, and policies for analyzing offender social media use.

The Elements of the Innovation Agenda — and the Requirements to Meet Them — Vary Considerably

• Develop and improve technology. The corrections enterprise needs some new technologies to meet its specialized needs.
• Adapt technology to the corrections environment. Though some existing technologies can meet corrections needs, tools must address the complexities of community and institutional settings, as well as sensitivities and legal concerns.
• Perform research and analysis. Some needs from both working groups require developing new knowledge to guide practice.
• Validate tools. There was a clear call for assistance in demonstrating that some existing tools actually do what they say they do.
• Change organizations' policies and practices. Policymakers and decisionmakers can build incentives into grant and other mechanisms to shape behavior, but outside forces can only facilitate — not execute — new innovations.

The agencies of the U.S. corrections enterprise manage offenders confined in prisons and jails and those who have been released into the community on probation and parole. The enterprise is one of the three central pillars of the criminal justice system, along with police and the courts. Corrections agencies face major challenges from declining budgets, increasing populations under supervision, problems of equity and fairness in administrating justice, and other concerns. To better achieve its objectives and play its role within the criminal justice enterprise, the sector needs innovation in corrections technology, policy, and practice. This report draws on published literature and new structured deliberations of a practitioner Corrections Advisory Panel to frame an innovation agenda. It identifies and prioritizes potential improvements in technology, policy, and practice in both community and institutional corrections. Some of the top-tier needs identified by the panel and researchers include adapting transcription and translation tools for the corrections environment, developing training for officers on best practices for managing offenders with mental health needs, and changing visitation policies (for example, using video visitation) to reduce opportunities for visitors to bring contraband into jails and prisons. Such high-priority needs provide a menu of innovation options for addressing key problems or capitalizing on emerging opportunities in the corrections sector. This report is part of a larger effort to assess and prioritize technology and related needs across the criminal justice community for the National Institute of Justice's National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center system.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  The State of Corrections Today

• Chapter Three

  Corrections Technology and Practice Today

• Chapter Four

  From Corrections Today to Corrections Tomorrow: Identifying Needs in Community and Institutional Corrections

• Chapter Five

  Prioritizing the Needs to Develop an Innovation Agenda for Corrections

• Chapter Six

  Conclusions: Fostering Innovation in Corrections

• Appendix A

  Corrections Advisory Panel Members

• Appendix B

  Corrections Advisory Panel Agenda

• Appendix C

  Detailed Methodology

• Appendix D

  Full List of Community Corrections Needs

• Appendix E

  Full List of Institutional Corrections Needs