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What are viable strategies for cutting costs while protecting the public’s safety?
Corrections can achieve some substantial cost savings in sustainability or greening strategies. This publication “provides correctional professionals with a framework to gain a general understanding of sustainability practices and principles and to identify examples of operations, programs, and management strategies for self-sustaining facilities” (p. ii).
Sections of this publication include:
- Introduction;
- Greening of correctional facilities;
- Completing the sustainable model—preparing and training inmates;
- Correctional industries—creating sustainable products/services and a green workforce;
- Green reentry programs;
- Recommendations for greening prisons and jails;
- And conclusion—the sustainable correctional/detention facility of the future.