Justice-Involved Veterans Compendium Project


The Justice-Involved Veterans Compendium Project from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is a series of publications intended to assist corrections professional in understanding and addressing the unique issues that justice-involved veterans encounter. 

Publications under the Project include:

Barracks Behind Bars II report coverBarracks Behind Bars II: In Veteran-Specific Housing Units, Veterans Help Themselves (2020)

This paper is the fourth in the NIC justice-involved veteran compendium project. It illuminates programs in prisons across the country whose goal is to prevent recidivism by justice-involved veterans, and by so doing improve the safety of law enforcement officers, correctional officers, inmates, and the public. It illustrates the design/development, implementation, and sustainment of initiatives taken by corrections officials who have set up specialized housing—in pods, dorms, units, wings, or floors—and programming for military veterans.

Law Enforcement Officers Respecting Service report coverLaw Enforcement Officers Respecting Service, Restoring Honor for Vets in Crisis (2019)

This is the third publication in the NIC justice-involved veterans compendium project. It shares the views of law enforcement programs at several locations across the country, from small towns to large cities, and highlights how each jurisdiction went about creating and implementing teams or programs to improve practices meant to serve veterans who are in crisis.

 

Barracks Behind Bars report coverBarracks Behind Bars: In Veteran-Specific Housing Units, Veterans Help Themselves (2018)

This paper is the second in the NIC justice-involved veteran compendium project. It illuminates programs in jails across the country and how justice involved veterans have been helped by them. It illustrates the design, development, implementation, and sustainment of initiatives taken by enlightened, pragmatic corrections officials who have set up veteran-specific housing—in pods, dorms, units, wings, or floors—and programming for military veterans.

Veterans Treatment Courts report coverVeterans Treatment Courts: A Second Chance for Vets Who Have Lost Their Way (2020)

This white paper is based on a series of interviews, buttressed by personal observations, of key players in half a dozen jurisdictions where Veterans Treatment Courts have been operating with marked success. In the report, proponents and practitioners intimately involved in the founding and operation of these courts relate how they are “the right thing to do” for combat veterans who commit certain crimes that are associated with the lingering legacy of their wartime experiences.

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