Public Safety Administration : Useful Links

"The SAGE edge site for American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience."

Links to information about the various "[h]ealth, mental health and substance abuse problems [that] often are more apparent in jails and prisons than in the community."

Links to publications and multimedia about topics such as Contraband Use/Detection, Personal Protective Equipment, and Restraints.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons "protect[s] public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and provide[s] reentry programming to ensure their successful return to the community."

"The SAGE edge site for Introduction to Corrections by Robert D. Hanser offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience."

"The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) compiles offender-level data on admissions and releases from state and federal prisons and post-confinement community supervision. The data are used to monitor the nation's correctional population and address specific policy questions related to recidivism, prisoner reentry, and trends in demographic characteristics of the incarcerated and community supervision populations."

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) "mission is to advance public safety by shaping and enhancing correctional policies and practices through leadership, learning, and innovation."

"DPS employees supervise offenders in prison, in juvenile detention centers and in community supervision. State troopers enforce North Carolina highway laws, Alcohol Law Enforcement special agents investigate and enforce alcohol, lottery and tobacco laws, and Emergency Management personnel help plan for and recover from man-made or natural disasters."

Links to publications and multimedia about topics such related to office wellness.

Links to publications and multimedia about topics related to officer training.

Links to publications and multimedia about topics related to different types of violence prevalent in facilities.