Improving Correctional Interventions & Policies. Improving Lives.

How do we help people under correctional supervision succeed? Using a range of methods and analytical techniques, researchers at The Corrections Lab seek to answer this core question by assessing, designing, implementing, and evaluating the nature and quality of correctional intervention, policy, and service. Our work involves the range of supervision settings from pretrial to prison for both youth and adults with the central aim of identifying strategies for reducing recidivism and facilitating desistance.

What Works? What Doesn’t?

Improving lives requires implementing and delivering programs and services that are consistent with evidence-based practices. Beyond asking “what works?” the lab seeks to advance practice by exploring the “black box” of correctional interventions and its relationship to success.  Consideration of the relationships between program implementation, fidelity, correctional staff, and organizational culture, among other factors, to help determine why, or why not, interventions - and people - succeed.

 

Our Reach

Our team is committed to advancing correctional practice both in the United States and abroad and are leaders in transnational and translational corrections research. Whether assessing correctional practices in Central America, studying the impacts of COVID-19 in Chile and Thailand, or implementing and evaluating the Organizational Coaching Model in the US, we are focused on research-driven reform aimed at improving the lives of people under correctional supervision.