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Jan 278 min read
Remaining Focused on What Has Proven to Work Best – Shannon Fuller and Gregory Holloway
In 2018, the Chief of Housing and Program Managers (CHAPS) participated in a survey initiated by the Virginia Department of Corrections...
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Jan 2620 min read
Putting Dialogue to Work in the Virginia Department of Corrections - Harold Clarke and Whitney Barton
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) began its Dialogue journey in 2010, and has continued to evolve under the leadership of...
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Jan 259 min read
Progressive Reinforcement Through the Use of Incentives - Joseph P. Owen, Dianne Motley and Eric Holloman
The Brunswick Community Corrections Alternative Program (CCAP) is a secure, residential facility that was created as an alternative...
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Jan 251 min read
Practitioner Circle recordings 2019
Dialogue in Extreme Business Stress Environments, September 25th 2019 Criminal Justice Needs Dialogue - Cultural Change in Virginia DOC,...
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Jan 251 min read
Patrick de Maré’s endorsement of the Prison Dialogue Group in HMP Whitemoor, January 1995, and his Kith and Kin paper
The paper was read to staff at Broadmoor Hospital (a secure psychiatric unit in London for serious offenders February 1994) The letter...
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Jan 254 min read
Pathway to Eliminate Restrictive Housing in VADOC - Lois Fegan
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has been on a pathway to reduce and eliminate the use of restrictive housing since 2016....
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Jan 259 min read
Operations Dialogue in Pandemic Conditions - Matthew Whibley and Eric Fling
During the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations around the world have had to reassess their business processes; the Virginia Department of...
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Jan 248 min read
Mind the Gap: Bridging Between Communication and Operation - TyKeshae Fowlkes Tucker, Andrea D. Wilson and Karen Fleming
Central Virginia Correctional Unit 13 (CVCU) plays an integral part in assigning inmates to outside work employment, as well as...
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Jan 2415 min read
Live Facilitation of the Offender Resettlement Journey - Jane Ball
This paper is intended as a companion to my reprinted 2018 paper (next chapter), in which I outline why the Offender Resettlement Journey...
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Jan 231 min read
Group Dialogue Within Prisons by Peter Garrett, a paper published in the Groupwork Journal Vol 8 (1) 1995
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Jan 231 min read
Group Dialogue in Prisons, a paper by Peter Garrett presented at the Fourth European Groupwork Symposium in Leicester, July 1994
Less than two years after David Bohm's death, Peter was promoting the Prison Dialogues that began six months after David's death....
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Jan 79 min read
Ending Gang Control of Telephones and Showers - Sharon S. Burgess
Facility personnel across the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) began noticing a rise in inmate disturbances. The lead cause...
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Jan 710 min read
Employee Retention, How Do We Recover - Matt Burgess, Michelle Hicks, and Angela Hill
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) strives to hire trustworthy, dedicated staff and retain their employment for 20 to 30...
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Dec 23, 202422 min read
Dialogue within Decision Making by Peter Garrett
This is a companion paper expanding the consideration begun by Harold Clarke and Whitney Barton in their paper, Putting Dialogue to Work...
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Dec 19, 20248 min read
Dialogue Training for Inmates - Encouraging Pro-Social Behavior - John F. Walrath and Wardenia Lassiter
Indian Creek Correctional Center is the only Cognitive Therapeutic Community for male inmates in the Virginia Department of Corrections...
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Dec 19, 202432 min read
Dialogue Through the Offender Resettlement Journey - Jane Ball
What is the purpose of the criminal justice system? Is it punishment? Or retribution? Perhaps rehabilitation? Deterrence? Public safety?...
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Dec 12, 20240 min read
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