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Partnerships in Corrections: Six Perspectives focuses on various collaborations undertaken by parts of the criminal justice system with the community and suggests potential collaborations for the future.

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Community Corrections: A Call for Punishments That Make Sense stresses what works in community corrections and the results that can be achieved with effective community corrections programs.

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Increasing Public Safety Through Halfway Houses educates elected officials, correctional leaders, and the general public on the history of halfway houses. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for continued community-based support of transitional living institutions as they face the challenges of the future.

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Public Outreach and Halfway Houses Research and Intergovernmental Solutions Final Report highlights the ways that the establishment of community justice services and residential halfway houses could be made more acceptable and to find evidence of whether listening to the voices of community members has in fact helped in the location of community justice services and halfway houses.

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Balancing Correctional Costs to Improve Public Safety discusses the issues surrounding corrections budgets.

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Leaders’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Issues explores the progress made and the issues and needs of community corrections from the viewpoint of the practitioners.

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Community Corrections An Overview for Elected Officials highlights the history, operations, effectiveness, costs, and the public’s view about community corrections. It provides questions for public officials to pursue and it lists resources to support the collaboration between levels and branches of government that is necessary to make programs effective.

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Siting Community Corrections Facilities: The Results of Four Focus Groups analyzes the results of a series of three, four-hour long focused group discussions about community justice facilities and locating a community facility in people’s neighborhoods. This report also integrates these analyses into the results of an earlier session supported by the National Institute of Corrections.

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Targeting Special Populations explains the importance of carefully choosing appropriate individuals for community corrections programs, and the groups most likely to benefit from these programs while posing little threat to communities.

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Funding Community Corrections Programs: A Guide for Internet Users offers elected officials, criminal justice leaders, and the public access to web-based resources relating to the Community Corrections Acts. Explains everything from why funding of Community Corrections is important to public safety to rethinking models and approaches.

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Is NIMBY Inevitable? informs elected officials, correctional leaders, and the general public about the problems facing halfway houses and community correctional facilities. The document identifies community backlash and assists correctional professionals as they navigate these sensitive issues.

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