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COGrim: If your department doesn’t provide you with good training- INSIST that they do!
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By Major Clifford G. Tebbitt, Jail Administrator, Scott County Sheriff's Office
Addressing your jail's recidivism rates, from an administrator's perspective, make good sense on any number of levels of consideration ranging from gauging resource investment returns to truly impacting your community's long-term; and quite frankly from a leadership perspective it’s the right thing to do!
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September – Food and Agriculture – Coverage of Food Service issues and Agriculture in corrections [Please send your articles/stories to editor@corrections.com]

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Program Director – Community Resources for Justice – Massachusetts

Community Resources for Justice (CRJ) is a nonprofit organization with origins that date back to the late 1800s. Currently we have a staff of about 550 employees throughout Massachusetts and surrounding states who are dedicated to supporting our population’s most challenged citizens.

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