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LEJA 442-DiFonso: Find Cases and Policies

This is information related to individual journal and paper reports in LEJA 442, Current Issues in Corrections

Searching news articles

Get Started

  • Click databases on the homepage
  • Click View All Link
  • Go to Access World News and click to open database.

Choose a corrections case type

  • Jail Detention Case
  • Probation Case
  • Parole Case
  • Prison Detention Case

Choose State Location

Arizona, California, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Texas by either ticking the box boy the state or clicking on the state in the map.

Choose state for news

Search for Cases

Select Lead/First Paragraph Add [case type] in first blank
Select Lead/First Paragraph and the word [case] in second blank
Next to the Date, click in the box and select AFTER. Then change the date to search for the last 10 years by changing mm/dd/yyyy.

Note: If results are too few, select All Text for your [case type].

Scan Results for Articles

Scan Headlines for cases on the corrections topic you searched for….
To get the full text, click on the article link to get full text for your journal entry.

case story result

Sorting and saving news articles

Evaluate Article Fit

Read the article to make sure the story matches a case type.

Good idea!

Search Policy Articles

To search for policy articles, repeat the process and change the second search term to policy!

Choose State Location
Arizona, California, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Texas 

Set Up and Search

Select Lead/First Paragraph Add [Corrections Type] in first blank
Select Lead/First Paragraph and the word [policy] in second blank