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| Best of Fall 2006 |
| By Jim Montalto, News Editor |
| Published: 12/25/2006 |
Editor's Note: As the year comes to a close it seems natural for our lives to slow just a bit after the holiday rush so we can reflect on the past few months. The Corrections.com staff recently reviewed their work this fall to see what pieces stood out the most, and came up with a few articles. Guest author submissions were at an all time high as they too garnered quite a number of reader responses.Needless to say, the folks at Corrections.com are truly thankful for our readers' thoughtful feedback and support throughout 2006, and we look forward to your participation and to bringing you even more interesting stories and news in 2007. Happy Holidays, and may you and your family have a healthy and happy new year. Jim Corrections.com News Editor Our Picks News reporter Sarah Etter provides the following commentary on the stories she chose from the fall. In the past few months, Corrections.com has received more reader feedback than in the entire year and a half that I've written for the site. To me, that speaks volumes about our readership and about corrections. We're no longer writing articles about you. We're instead writing articles for your consideration and comment. And you've responded. We've seen our email inboxes flood with support for programs, outrage against mandatory bank accounts and corrections to some of our own mistakes. This participation is what encourages us to continue to report the best possible news. We're hearing from officers, administrators, juvenile justice professionals and criminal justice employees from all walks of life, and having the chance to cover a field of such distinguished professionals is challenging, rewarding and important to me. If anything, these emails keep me on my toes and force me to make sure I'm reporting the news in an honest, reliable way. So, for this Best of Fall feature, I selected the stories that struck a chord with our audience. These are the articles that had you writing us for weeks, and we'd love to see those responses increase, so keep them coming! In Piggy bank blues I wrote about the idea of keeping a portion of offender money aside to serve as some kind of savings for their release. Readers were on the fence about this issue, as we saw a proportionate amount of those for the concept idea as those against. Community laws that would essentially push sex offenders out of towns and possibly into little cities of their own also struck a chord with our readers with the article Sex offender city. Sarah The editorial Cashing in on Corrections also generated response as it noted how private corrections firms are making quite a hefty sum on the industry. Many readers agreed with the editor's hope that as these companies make more money, they begin to give back to the industry and their community. I chose Moose: It's what's for dinner for the Best of Fallbecause it highlighted a program that involves the Alaska DOC working with other state agencies to turn an unfortunate incident into a beneficial food program for the state's neediest residents. With much of the bad press that California seems to get these days with its corrections challenges, it was nice to see that all of the DOCs are working hard to become more energy efficient. Cogenerate to rehabilitate highlights one aspect of the work to become more green. Jim New Feature We added Your Call this fall too, which serves as a reader forum. Each month, we'll update this column with newly published reader feedback. Guest Authors Our guest authors also provided relevant information and helped us gain a better perspective into the corrections world. In Emergency planning beyond the manual RIDOC Deputy Assistant Director/Warden Nancy Bailey discusses covering all of the bases regarding emergency preparedness. Brent Matthews' Department of change provided interesting insight on how corrections professionals can empower themselves by honing their emotional intelligence skills, as Dr. Caterina G. Spinaris Tudor helped readers manage Corrections Fatigue in her recent article From Fatigue to Fulfillment. |
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