Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI)
The principal investigative arm of
the U.S. Department of Justice. This site contains information on the
The U.S. Coast Guard is the
maritime law enforcement agency of the
The
Alameda County
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Chicago Police Officers' Network
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CRISNet Local
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Law enforcement agency web sites
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Denver Police
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Directory of
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A directory of over 1,500 official
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A directory of law enforcement
agencies on the web compiled by the Pima Community College, Department of
Public Safety, Tucson, Arizona.
Lincoln Police Department
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Department (Wisconsin)
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Oxnard, California Police
Department
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Providence
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Department
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A directory of law enforcement
agencies arranged by State.
Topeka Police
Department (Kansas)
Trenton Police Department (New
Jersey)
Alabama Board
of Pardons & Paroles
Alameda County
Probation Dept - California
Alaska
Department of Corrections - Division of Community Corrections
Arizona
Department of Corrections - Community Corrections
Arkansas Department
of Community Punishment
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Probation Dept - Tennessee
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Colorado Office
of Probation Services - Colorado
Connecticut
Department of Corrections - Community Enforcement Unit
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Community Corrections - Oregon
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Department of Corrections - Office of Community Corrections
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Department of Corrections - Probation Division
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Idaho
Department of Corrections - Division of Field & Community Services
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Department of Corrections - Bureau of Parole
Indiana
Department of Corrections - Division of Programs & Community Services
Jefferson
County Probation Dept - New York
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Department of Corrections - Division of Community & Field Services
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Department of Corrections - Division of Parole & Probation
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Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services - Division of Parole
& Probation
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Department of Corrections - Parole Board
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Department of Corrections - Division of the Board of Probation & Parole
Monroe County
Probation Dept - Indiana
Montana Board of Pardons &
Parole
Montana
Department of Corrections - Division of Community Corrections
Monterey County
Probation Department (CA)
Napa County
Probation Department (CA)
Nebraska
Department of Correctional Services - Adult Parole Administration
New Hampshire
Department of Corrections - Division of Field Services
New Jersey
Department of Corrections - Division of Parole District Offices
New Mexico
Department of Corrections - Probation & Parole Division
New York City
Department of Probation - New York
New York State Department of
Corrections - Division of Probation & Correctional Alternatives
New York State
Office of General Services - Division of Parole
Ocean County
Probation Division (NJ)
Orange County
Probation Dept - California
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Probation Department (NY)
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Probation Dept - Arizona
Placer County
Probation Dept - California
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Adult Probation - Indiana
Riverside
County Probation Department (CA)
Sacramento County Probation Dept.
- California
San Bernardino
County Probation Dept - California
San Diego
County Probation Dept - California
Solano County
Probation Dept - California
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Probation Department (CA)
Stanislaus
County Probation Dept - California
State of Georgia Board of Pardons
& Paroles
Suffolk County
Probation Dept - New York
Texas
Department of Criminal Justice - Parole Division
Travis County
Community Supervision and Corrections - Texas
Union County Probation Division
(NJ)
Washington
County Probation & Parole Services - Oregon
Yolo County
Probation Department (CA)
York County
Probation Dept - Pennsylvania
Cook County
Sheriff's Office (Illinois)
Dane County, (Wis.) Sheriff's
Office
This website gives you the
opportunity to anonymously report drug and/or gang activities, and contains a
guide full of tips on how to avoid road rage.
Florence County Sheriff's Office
Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department
Alabama
Department of Corrections
Alaska
Department of Corrections
Arizona Department of Corrections
Arkansas Department of Correction
California Department of
Corrections
Colorado
Department of Corrections
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Delaware
Department of Correction
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Department of Public Safety
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Department of Correction
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of Corrections
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Division of Correction
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Missouri State
Corrections and Youth Services
Montana
Department of Corrections
Nebraska
Department of Correctional Services
New Hampshire Department of
Corrections
New Jersey
Department of Corrections
New Mexico
Corrections Department
New York Commission of Correction
New York State Commission of
Correction
The New York State Commission of
Correction is the regulatory oversight agency for all State and local
correctional facilities in
New York State Department of
Corrections
North Carolina Department of
Correction
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation
and Correction
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
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Pennsylvania Department of
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New Mexico Department of Public
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North Carolina State Highway
Patrol
Oklahoma Department of Public
Safety
South Carolina Department of
Public Safety
Tennessee Department of Safety
Texas Department of Public Safety
Utah Department of Public Safety
Law Enforcement, Emergency
Management, and Corrections Training Resources (LECTR)
Sponsored by the National Institute
of Justice (NIJ), LECTR offers a database of training resources.
Bureau of
Justice Statistics Corrections Statistics
Information, statistics, and
publications about capital punishment, jails, prisons, and probation and parole
from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The Corrections Program Office
(CPO) was established within the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in 1995 to
implement the correctional grant programs created by the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, as amended (Crime Act). This site contains
information on grant activities by State.
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
The official website of the U.S.
Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). This website contains
organizational information, BOP publications, contact information for Federal
correctional facilities, and statistics.
National Institute of Corrections
(NIC)
NIC is a small agency under the
U.S. Department of Justice that provides assistance to Federal, State, and
local corrections agencies working with adult offenders. This website contains
publications and special announcements.
National Institute of Corrections
Information Center
NIC is a small agency under the
U.S. Department of Justice that provides assistance to Federal, State, and
local corrections agencies working with adult offenders. This website contains
publications and special announcements.
OVAE: Office of
Correctional Education (OCE)
The U.S. Department of Education
created the Office of Correctional Education (OCE) to provide technical
assistance to States, local schools, and correctional institutions and to share
information on correctional education. This website includes descriptions of
demonstration projects, funding opportunities, upcoming events, and OCE news.
U.S.
Penitentiary Alcatraz, 1934-1963
This site gives a short history of
United States
Parole Commission
The U.S. Parole Commission has sole
authority to grant, modify, or revoke paroles of eligible
United States Sentencing
Commission
The United States Sentencing
Commission is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government that
establishes sentencing policies and practices for the Federal courts, including
guidelines prescribing the appropriate form and severity of punishment for
offenders convicted of Federal crimes. This website contains reports to
Congress, publications, Federal sentencing guidelines, and Federal sentencing
statistics.
American
Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA)
The American Correctional Health
Services Association (ACHSA) is a membership organization for all correctional
health care professionals.
Correctional HIV Consortium (CHC)
CHC offers services and information
for corrections agencies, institutions, administrators, and correctional
medical professionals.
Healthcare
Network (from Corrections Connection)
The Healthcare Network is intended
to encourage communication among corrections and criminal justice health care
professionals and to inform the industry of new developments, trends, and
initiatives that affect correctional systems nationwide.
National Commission on
Correctional Health Care (NCCHC)
The National Commission on
Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is a not-for-profit organization working to
improve the quality of care in
The government agency responsible
for federal corrections in
Hong Kong
Correctional Services
The agency responsible for
corrections in
The agency responsible for
corrections in
This page contains Federal and
State statutes and court decisions concerning capital punishment.
U.S.
Corrections Law Materials
This page is part of
Corrections
Products Evaluated by BOP
Information on products evaluated
by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Security Information Management
Online Network
The Security Information Management
Online Network contains a library of security related publications, public and
password-protected message boards, and an online trade show for companies in
the security industry.
Southern Technology Applications
Center (STAC)
STAC is one of six
Bedsearch.org is an online index
designed to assist state, county, federal government agencies and private
correctional facility and detention centers with the proper placement and
transportation of incarcerated individuals, including those inmates with
special needs.
This website contains information
about corrections news, training opportunities, mailing lists, publications,
State corrections departments, county sheriff's departments, Federal agencies,
and job openings in the corrections field.
Corrections Technology and
Management (CTM) Magazine
CTM Magazine's website contains
information on how to subscribe to the magazine, a jobs database, an online
buyer's guide for corrections services and equipment, current events, grant
listings, and more.
Corrections
Telecommunications and Technology
This website features reprints of
articles from a series published in Corrections Managers' Report.
Criminal Justice Institute (CJI)
The Criminal Justice Institute
(CJI) was created to provide research, consultation, and information
dissemination services to correctional systems across the
Jail.Net - The Global Corrections
Resource
This website contains a conference
calendar, links to Federal and State court decisions, procedures, and other
legal documents; links to most wanted lists, information about training
opportunities; and more.
Justice
Information Center (NCJRS): Corrections
This page links to a selection of
online documents, websites, and listservs dealing with corrections.
Juvenile Information Network (from
Corrections Connection)
The Juvenile Information Network
(JIN) is intended to encourage communications among juvenile justice
professionals and to foster the development of new reform programs in systems
at the State and local levels.
A collection of links compiled by
Mark Salsberry, an Illinois State Parole Agent. This site includes information
on gangs, equipment suppliers, parole, corrections, and more.
The purpose of ParoleWatch is to
notify the public about cases in which violent felons are coming up for parole.
This Internet resource for the
corrections industry contains product information, employment opportunities,
requests for proposals and bid requests, industry news, and a large collection
of links.
This web site is associated with
Security Management magazine, the primary publication of the American Society
for Industrial Security (ASIS). The site contains articles, links, an event
calendar, and discussion forums.
Technology
Network (from Corrections Connection)
The Technology Network (TechNet) is
intended to encourage communication among corrections and criminal justice
professionals regarding technology, and to inform the industry of new
technology developments taking place in systems at the Federal, State, and
local levels.
Corrections
Offender Information Network Florida Department of Corrections
Provides a searchable database of
current
Corrections
Offender Information Network Florida Department of Corrections
Provides information on
Georgia
Department of Corrections Offender Query Form
Provides online offender
information for the state of
Illinois Department
of Corrections Inmate Search
Provides online information about
inmates in the state of
Michigan
Department of Corrections Offender Tracking Information System
Provides information on offenders
in the state of
Minnesota
Department of Corrections Offender Locator
Provides online offender
information for the state of
North Carolina
Department of Corrections Offender Information
Provides online information of
offenders in the state of
Sex Offender
Community Notification
A National Institutes of Justice
Report about sex offender community notification
Correctional Education Connections
This website contains information
on correctional education, substance abuse counseling, and related links.
INMATE
Classified - A Pen Pal in Prison
This site features email addresses
and personal pages of inmates.
The site includes articles on
criminal justice, the death penalty, death row, and prisons and prisoners. Also
of interest is the Prisoner's Dictionary, a guide to language and shorthand
abbreviations.
This site features prison photos,
art, and writing.
Strength Tech Home Page - Weight
Lifting / Weightlifting in Prisons
This website contains information
about weight lifting in prisons including issues, legislation, and specific
incidents and accidents.
This site features the findings of
the
A prison privatization research
site from the
AFSCME
Corrections United (ACU)
ACU is part of the American
Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the nation's
largest public employee and health care workers union. This website contains
information on a variety of topics including membership benefits, health
issues, prison privatization, and legislation.
American
Correctional Association (ACA)
The American Correctional
Association (ACA) is a multi-disciplinary organization of professionals
representing all levels and facets of corrections and criminal justice,
including Federal, State, and military correctional facilities and prisons,
county jails and detention centers, probation and parole agencies, and
community corrections/halfway houses. This website contains information about
membership, ACA conferences, training and technical assistance, publications,
and articles from current and back issues of Corrections Today.
American Correctional Food Service
Association (ACFSA)
The American Correctional Food
Service Association (ACFSA) was formed in 1969 to enhance, represent, and
promote the correctional segment of the foodservice industry. This website
contains information about membership, certification, and conferences.
American Jail
Association (AJA)
The American Jail Association (AJA)
is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting those who work in
and operate our Nation's jails. This website contains instructions on becoming
a member and information on AJA activities including conferences, publications,
jail exchange programs, and training opportunities.
American Probation and Parole
Association (APPA)
The American Probation and Parole
Association (APPA) is an international association composed of individuals from
the
American Society for Industrial
Security (ASIS)
ASIS is the largest international
educational organization for security professionals. This site contains
membership information, a catalog of publications, and a professional
development calendar.
Site provides information on a
international biometric organization that provides a forum for the
Site provides information on a consortium
that develops a widely available and widely accepted API that will serve for
various biometric technologies. The intent is to work with industry biometric
solution developers, software developers, and system integrators to leverage
existing standards to facilitate easy adoption and implementation; develop an
OS independent standard; make the API biometric independent; and support a
broad range of applications.
International Biometric Industry
Association
This site provides information on a
trade association which advances, advocates, defends and supports the
collective international interests of the biometric industry.
Death Penalty Focus of California
A nonprofit organization dedicated
to the abolition of capital punishment.
This site features photos and
information on the electric chair and electrocutions.
The Prison Issues Desk is a project
of the Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) and describes itself as a source
for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution
system.
The Sentencing Project is an
independent source of criminal justice policy analysis, data, and program
information for the public and policy-makers. This site contains information on
conferences, publications, and the organization's activities.
The Biometrics Catalog was
developed as a service to the biometrics community and potential users of
biometric technology. Users may search for commercially available products and
university and government research projects.
An online auction site for law
enforcement and corrections equipment.
Minimizing
Compliance Costs of the Life Safety Code for Correctional Facilities
The purpose of this NIST project
was to develop a systematic procedure for finding low-cost, safety-equivalent
solutions compliant with the Life Safety Code for Detention and Correctional
Facilities and to incorporate that procedure into Windows software.
National Technology Transfer
Center (NTTC)
NTTC was established in 1989 by Congress
to provide American companies and individuals with access to Federal R&D to
better enable them to compete in the international marketplace.
This site contains information on
the Arkansas Supreme Court including a database of Court opinions from 1994 to
the present.
Clark County,
Nevada District Attorney
The legal branch of local
government representing the Clark County Commission and other county agencies
in administrative and litigation matters.
Court
Information Systems Technical Assistance Project
Overview and latest activities of
this national project to promote and assist the automation and integration of
court information systems. Directed by SEARCH, The National Consortium for
Justice Information and Statistics.
A list of vendors from the
Links to court web sites from the
NCSC.
The
This website contains information
on the Federal court system, a directory of electronic public access services
providing access to Federal court databases, publications, and news from the
Federal judiciary.
JOSHUA - Judicial Online
SuperHighway User Access System
JOSHUA is a state-wide information
system serving
Midtown
Community Court Computer System Project
A description of the
This site contains a database of
decisions, court rules, a docket calendar, and more.
This site contains information the
Missouri Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Circuit Courts.
National Center for State Courts
(NCSC)
The
NCSC Technology
Information Service
The Technology Information Service
offers in-depth information packets for a variety of topics relating to
technologies in the courts. Topics include electronic filing, digital
signatures, imaging technologies, videoconferencing, and more.
The State Justice Institute awards
grants to improve the quality of justice in the State courts, facilitates
better coordination and information sharing between State and Federal courts,
and fosters to common problems faced by all courts. The website contains
information on SJI grants and the application process.
This site contains a Court calendar
with case synopses, summaries of Court opinions, rules and procedures, and
more.
Supreme Court
of South Carolina - Opinions
This site contains Supreme Court
opinions from 1997 to the present.
This site contains court opinions
from 1995 to the present, certiorari lists, and opinions of the Judicial Ethics
Committee.
United States Sentencing
Commission
The United States Sentencing
Commission is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government that
establishes sentencing policies and practices for the Federal courts, including
guidelines prescribing the appropriate form and severity of punishment for
offenders convicted of Federal crimes. This website contains reports to
Congress, publications, Federal sentencing guidelines, and Federal sentencing
statistics.
This site contains information on
the
Alabama
Criminal Justice Information Center
The
Arkansas Crime Information Center
(ACIC)
ACIC maintains the statewide
computerized communications network used by criminal justice agencies in
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
BJS is the
Crime Mapping Research Center
(CMRC)
A center established by the
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to advance applied and basic research
involving the analytical mapping of crime. This site includes information on
grants, CMRC projects, conferences, books, and journal articles.
Drug Enforcement
Administration - Drug Data
This website contains statistics on
drug use, drug seizures, and drug-related deaths in the
Drug
Enforcement Administration - Intelligence Reports
The FBI is the principal
investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. This page links to
information on the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and Uniform
Crime Reports.
Federal Bureau
of Prisons Quick Facts
Federal Justice Statistics
Resource Center (FJSRC)
The Federal Justice Statistics
Resource Center (FJSRC) maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information
about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for
Federal Statistics
The Federal Interagency Council on
Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range
of statistics and information produced by the Federal government for public
use.
Geospatial and
Statistical Data Center
This website includes interactive
access to county level data on crimes reported and arrests as provided to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority
This site contains publications,
grant information, criminal justice statistics, and information on public
safety communications systems in
National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
NACJD, established in 1978 under
the auspices of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of
Justice, currently holds over 500 data collections relating to criminal
justice. This website provides browsing and downloading access to most of this
data and documentation.
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS is a collection of
clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of DOJ's Office of Justice Programs. This
site contains a publications catalog, an abstracts database, electronic
documents, links to other websites, a conference calendar, and DOJ grant
announcements.
National Institute of Corrections
Information Center
NIC is a small agency under the
U.S. Department of Justice that provides assistance to Federal, State, and
local corrections agencies working with adult offenders. This website contains
publications and special announcements.
National
Institute on Drug Abuse - Infofax
Science based facts on drug abuse
and addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The Police Foundation defines,
designs, conducts, and evaluates controlled experiments testing ways to improve
the delivery of police services. This site contains information on research
projects, crime mapping, technical assistance, publications, and more.
RAND Institute's Criminal Justice
Program
Since 1976, RAND's Criminal Justice
Program has been analyzing issues and policy related to crime and violence in
the
The entryway to an expanding array
of justice-related Internet services provided by SEARCH, The National
Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics.
Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics
Data about all aspects of criminal
justice in the
Street Terms:
Drugs and the Drug Trade
This site from the Office of
National Drug Control Policy contains over 2,000 street terms that refer to
specific drug types or drug activity.
A forum for the discussion of crime
and justice issues.
The Sentencing
Project's Reports
Summaries of policy reports from
the Sentencing Project.
The
Virginia Institute for Forensic
Science and Medicine (VIFSM)
VIFSM is a forensic science and
medical facility that provides hands-on training in a working forensic
environment for aspiring forensic scientists and pathologists by a staff of
experienced forensic scientists and pathologists.
The Biometrics Catalog was
developed as a service to the biometrics community and potential users of
biometric technology. Users may search for commercially available products and
university and government research projects.
This site contains articles and
links to information on crime scene investigation, physical evidence,
testimonial evidence, behavioral evidence, and death investigation.