Jail/Incarceration Study

2005-2007

Working page for the LWVPT study committee on jails/incarceration and alternatives.
Everyone is welcome to read this page and follow any of the links.


 

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League articles and pictures from our study. Guilford County has two jails, one in Greensboro and one in High Point.
Links to parts of the Study  and the Consensus statement
High Point jail in
text and pictures

Juvenile Detention Facility

Greensboro jail in
text and pictures

Guilford County
Prison Farm

Forsyth County Jail

Alternatives

Building

Other articles from Voter Impact relating to the jail study


Alternatives to incarceration programs in Guilford County.
One Step Further, Inc.
Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (Part of Alcohol and Drug Services)
Day reporting centers in North Carolina: Implementation lessons for policymakers
Day Reporting and Restitution (of One Step Further, Inc.)

Other resources about jails, and drug treatment options.

Summary of the Guilford County Jail study by Kimme and Associates. (Very large PDF file. The League scanned the summary documents and generated this PDF file. This is a public document.)

Guilford County Sheriff. Contains count of number of persons in jail in Guilford County. http://www.guilfordcountysheriff.com/

An introduction to the county jail. http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/pubs/electronicversions/pdfs/jails.pdf

Types of civil processes: http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/MCSO/Divisions/Field+Operations/Civil+Processes.htm

US Department of Justice/Justice Programs
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/

North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc.
http://www.ncpls.org/index.htm

Essay on one North Carolina jail (Not Guilford County)http://www.ncpls.org/code/safehumanejails.htm

North Carlina Facilities standards
www.facility-services.state.nc.us

National Commission on Correctional Health Care which works to improve the quality of health care in jails: www.ncchc.org

1997 article about increase in number of prisoners in NC jails. http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may97/jails.html

About National TASC (Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities)
http://www.nationaltasc.org/about/about.html
National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities Resource Page http://www.nationaltasc.org/reso/reso.html

National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/podat/podatindex.html

 

 

           

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