The Jails and Justice Support Center: A vital resource for the nation’s jails
The Jails and Justice Support Center (JJSC) assists jails in creating and sustaining safe, humane, and effective environments for their populations including incarcerated individuals, staff, and visitors.
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In an effort to address correctional staffing challenges and increase job satisfaction among staff working in Tennessee’s jails, the Tennessee Corrections Institute (TCI) partnered with researchers from Austin Peay State University (APSU) and the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI) to conduct interviews with a sample of jail staff across the state.
BJA will lead the support for this 9-month planning initiative to help communities develop a comprehensive continuum of care that targets individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in jails and builds bridges to increase access to treatment both in custody and with community-based MAT providers upon release. Under this solicitation, up to 15 communities will be selected to participate in the planning initiative.
This web-only report provides preliminary statistics on key items from the annual jail data collection. Statistics include the number of inmates held in local jails, by inmate demographics and conviction status; the number of admissions to jail; and jail incarceration rates, between 2013 and 2023. Final statistics will be published in the forthcoming report, Jail Inmates in 2023 – Statistical Tables.
