Hosted by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this new podcast episode features Chris Poulos, Director of Person-Centered Services at the Washington State Department of Corrections.  In this episode, Chris Poulos will share lessons learned during his remarkable personal journey from incarceration to lawyer and White House Fellow to senior corrections policymaker in the state of Washington. 

Announced by the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Arnold Ventures, Correctional Leaders Association, and JustLeadershipUSA, this bold initiative is set to make successful integration a reality for everyone by 2030.  Since its announcement, the Biden-Harris Administration has released a statement recognizing the impact that advancing successful reentry outcomes can have on bolstering the economy and strengthening the nation’s communities, specifically highlighting Reentry 2030 as a key effort to do so. Reentry 2030 will provide resources, tools, and supports to help every state design and implement an ambitious plan to:

• Scale up access to stable housing, education, employment skills training, behavioral health treatment, health care, and other supports for people with criminal records.
• Clear away unnecessary barriers to opportunities and economic mobility.
• Advance racial equity by using data to understand and address disparities in access to services, quality of services, and outcomes.

Published by the National Institute of Justice and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, this publication discusses the social media habits of two distinct types of extremists and how better to prepare justice system agencies to prevent and respond to extremist violence in the United States.  Research sponsored by the National Institute of Justice has found that study samples of individuals in the United States who have engaged in violent and nonviolent hate crime and other forms of extremist crime were influenced by social media.  A key finding was that extremists in the study group may mirror the general population in their use of various social media platforms, particularly in terms of reliance on Facebook.  Although the sample size was relatively small, and less than 20 percent of people in the study sample said they used Facebook, use of Facebook was found to be significantly higher than that of any other social media platform.

Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), this article argues that written and spoken communications authored and leaked by lone perpetrators who actively plan and prepare targeted violence can be utilized to prevent destructive attacks.  Targeted violence refers to intended attacks by an offender who preselects one or more targets, such as people at a specific location in a public setting (e.g., school, workplace, concert).  

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center, this course is for officers, investigators, and analysts who encounter cell phone evidence that includes information external to the phone. Class concepts include instruction on how to request, read, and analyze call detail records from cellular providers and how to plot cellular site locations to determine the approximate position of a suspect during a given period. No special hardware or software is required. However, this course focuses heavily on analysis; as such, a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is highly recommended.  Each student will be provided with a free copy of NW3Cs PerpHound tool, which assists in the plotting of call detail record locations.

When: Tuesday–Wednesday, May 24 – May 25, 2022
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., UTC