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Technology Institute for Corrections

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NIJ holds an annual technology institute for corrections practitioners to learn about and discuss technology initiatives and issues affecting the corrections community. NIJ encourages Institute participants to share their needs and to present creative solutions to technology issues they face. By sharing their experiences, practitioners help each other with technology challenges. In turn, NIJ is able to use the discussions held at the Institute to provide valuable input that will help guide NIJ research and development efforts in the future.

During the week-long institute, attendees receive and exchange information about existing and developing technologies, problem-solving relating to technology implementation and technology lessons learned. Attendees will also participate in tours of correctional facilities in the Baltimore, Md., area.

The goals of the Institute are to provide:

Participants with the opportunity for continuing education on technologies applicable to corrections.
Participants with the opportunity to meet and interact with other corrections professionals.
NIJ with the opportunity to improve and build on its technology development programs based on participant experience and comments.

Cost and Attendance

There is no registration cost and all travel, food and lodging expenses are paid.

Attendance is limited to 25 full-time state and local corrections officials who are actively involved in technology-related corrections issues within their agencies. The applicants should be senior staff with responsibility for making technology decisions and ensuring the implementation of selected technologies, and should be responsible for helping to set the course of future technology implementation within their respective agencies.

An agency may only submit one application for consideration. Alumni from previous Institutes will not be considered. The application must be completely filled out for an applicant to be considered.

Selected applicants will be required to present a 10-15 minute presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint format) addressing a technology challenge that his/her agency has solved or a technology challenge his/her agency currently faces.