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LEJA 442-DiFonso: State Corrections Dept Data

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

State Corrections Research Data

Links to the Dept. of Corrections & their reports/statistics pages:  (Once at a Dept. of Corrections homepage, browse, or use the search box provided)

Demonstration example:

Florida

Florida Dept. of Corrections  http://www.dc.state.fl.us/index.html
Publications  http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/index.html

States assigned in Class:

Arizona

Arizona Dept. of Corrections  http://www.azcorrections.gov/
Reports and Statistics  http://www.azcorrections.gov/adc/reports/reports1.aspx

California

California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation  http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/
CDCR Reports, Statistics and Cited Works http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports/index.html

Illinois

Illinois Dept. of Corrections http://www2.illinois.gov/idoc/Pages/default.aspx
Reports and Statistics http://www2.illinois.gov/idoc/reportsandstatistics/Pages/default.aspx

Michigan

Michigan Dept. of Corrections  http://www.michigan.gov/corrections
Publications and Information  http://www.michigan.gov/corrections/0,4551,7-119-1441---,00.html
Legislative Reports  http://www.michigan.gov/corrections/0,4551,7-119-1441_1513---,00.html

New York

New York Dept. of Corrections  and Community Supervision  http://www.doccs.ny.gov/
Research Reports and Publications  http://www.doccs.ny.gov/Research/Research.html

Ohio

Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections http://www.drc.ohio.gov/
Publications and Reports http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/Reports/reports.htm

Texas

Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/
Publications http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/publications/
Statistics http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/index.html

Note: Most Dept of Corrections homepages will have a search box to use, if you don't find what you are looking for.

Also, sometimes a state has sentencing and other such information in its judicial or other Web sites.   So if you don't find what you are looking for in the above links, do a google search of only goverment sites by putting site:gov in front of your search terms.

For example once in Google, do a search of  site:gov Arizona sentencing - or-  site:gov Arizona "truth in sentencing"

Chuck Malone, 4th floor Malpass Library,  

298-2719,     c-malone@wiu.edu

 

Contact Information

Chuck Malone

c-malone@wiu.edu

4th floor Malpass Library

298-2719