Our annual jail classification supervisors and managers seminar is designed for persons who supervise and/or manage the jail classification function in City and County Detention Facilities. The speakers and materials are intended to inform new and experienced jail classification leadership of current issues, contemporary trends and operational developments in adult jail facility classification. The seminar also includes networking with the leaders in the jail classification business and a comparative review of jail classification systems. Topics change yearly with new information and suggestion from jail classification staff.

Day 1 Jail Classification Legal and Procedural Issues

• Outline of Jail issues for Round Table discussion
  What's changed in jail classification
  Technology - the internet and resources
  An overview of state and national trend jail
  Juvenile Incarceration
  Jail Special Handling Types and procedures
  New construction and remodeling
  Joint facilities - Adult and Juvenile
  Current trends and Issues in Adult Jails Institutional New approaches and variations of classification techniques
  Challenges to classification units, their supervision and management
  Predicting the future - what lays ahead for classification units their supervisors and managers?
  
  Population Predictions (up or down?)
  Types of jailed offenders (Who Stays ?- How long?-Why?)
  The importance of your own jail statistics and measures of classification trends in your jurisdiction
  Jail classification Information and Staff Training
  What Classification Should be Doing for the Local Justice System
  Jail projections (Budget, Staffing, Building)
  Service Levels and Service Consumers (internal & external)
  Alternatives that make sense in jail populations
  

Day 2 Special Handling and Administrative Segregation

• Review of Jail Legal Issues and Classification Management
  Update on jail due process and classification (Wolfish, Sandin, and newer cases)
  Administrative segregation, disciplinary isolation and program participation disqualification
  Special Legal & Operational considerations of Security
  Housing Units (SHU's)
  Managerial and supervisory legal responsibilities for unit and system operations (e.g. unlawful discrimination, training of classification officers, inspection of classification procedures)
  
  Current State Factors and Issues effecting supervision and management of classification units and systems
  
  State inmates in city and county jail facilities
  Can C.D.C. and C.Y.A. classification be of any use to jails?
  Population Management
  Juveniles in adult facilities (it will happen)
  What about women in jail?
  
  

Day 3 Impact of Jail/Prison Gangs and Other Disruptive Groups Update and Overview of Prison Gangs and Disruptive Groups in Institutions

• Traditional jail and prison "gangs" in evolution and revolution in adult and juvenile institutions
  Street and youth gangs in urban and rural communities
  Hate groups and fanatical organizations in institutions, Methods of recruitment, discipline and internal activities
  International organized crime, immigration and narco-terrorists influence on American detention facilities
  Specific state and federal laws directed at controlling gangs and organized crime
  Symbols, uniforms, trademarks and identifiers for specific groups found in institutions - WHAT TO LOOK and LISTEN FOR
  Jargon, rap music, graffiti, and coded writing by group
  Rules of information and intelligence sharing for classification, criminal investigations and security operations.
  New twists to using court orders for gang purposes.

Other NTE Corrections Courses and Correctional Services

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• Supervisory and Management Seminars
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We also offer classification specialty Case assessment and Expert Witness Services for:

• Employee Associations
• Legal Self Defense Consortiums
• Criminal Justice Agencies