REPORT TO THE NATION

FY14

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 

CORRECTIONS
Jim Cosby

Chief, Community 

Services Division

Donna Ledbetter

Project Manager

Jeffrey Hadnot

Chief, Academy Division

Shaina Vanek

Executive Assistant

BeLinda Watson

Chief, Prisons and Jails Divisions

Jim Cosby

Director

Robert M. Brown, Jr.

Senior Deputy Director

Harry Fenstermaker

Chief, Financial Management
AFFECTED 

BY THE 

NATION’S 

CRIMINAL 

JUSTICE 

SYSTEM.

FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NIC HAS BEEN 

SERVING THE MEN, WOMEN, 

FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES
TRAINING + INFORMATION + TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

WE ARE IN SERVICE TO THE FIELD,

STRIVING TO BE THE NATION’S MOST TRUSTED 

RESOURCE FOR CORRECTIONS.
We had 2,579 connections for

our show...[and] our

program was watched in 42

states, plus DC and

Canada... You’ve got fans

out there – AND many folks

who hunger for more

information... --CYNTHIA, NIC broadcast 

technician, Information

I wanted to thank NIC for

conducting this training. It

will definitely help us as an

organization to continue to

move forward... --JAMES "GREG" COX, 

Director 

Nevada Dept. of 

Corrections, Training

Amazing. I felt that we all

grew as a result. Our team is

stronger. This has cemented

our conviction so that we can

move forward. I can't wait to

get back to work. --PARTICIPANT, Desert 

Waters Correctional 

Outreach, Technical 

Assistance

HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT 

THE SERVICE THEY HAVE RECEIVED 

NIC SERVICE
Conducting 

a Security 

Audit

Critical 

Incident 

Team 

Training

Incident 

Command 

System for 

Corrections 

Training for 

Trainers

Supervisory 

Training

New 

Wardens 

Training

Green 

Corrections 

Challenge

Human 

Resources 

Directors 

Forum

Training 

Administrators 

Forum

Special 

Interest 

Seminar

• With the South Carolina DOC, NIC provided 

the newly revised format of the Crisis 

Intervention Training. Within 2 days of 

completion of the training, one officer was 

able to use the training to de-escalate a crisis 

with a mentally ill offender and helped him 

avoid him harming himself as well as staff.

• NIC hosted the first national Green 

Corrections Challenge. The program 

webinars will be presented by the winners to 

share their practices and educate others on 

green corrections. 

PRISONS DIVISION

HIGHLIGHTS
Staffing 

Analysis 

National 

Sheriffs 

Institute 

Managing 

Restrictive 

Housing 

Populations

Large Jail 

Network

Jail 

Administration

• NIC completed the Indian Country Audit Tool 

for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 

Detention Guidelines along with the 

corresponding training. As part of this 

cooperative agreement with Indian Country, 

and partnership with BIA, we developed and 

deployed not only the audit tool to 

determine BIA Detention Guideline 

compliance but also a three-day workshop 

on assessing, achieving, and sustaining 

compliance. These guidelines, the training 

program, and audit tool are the first of their 

kind in Indian Country jails.

JAILS

DIVISION

HIGHLIGHTS
JusticeInvolved 

Women

Children of 

Incarcerated 

Parents

OWDS 

E-Courses

LGBTI

Desistence

Veterans 

Treatment 

Courts

Community 

Corrections 

Collaborative 

Network

Post-Conviction 

Victim Service 

Providers

Dosage 

Probation

OWDS 

Technical 

Assistance

• Developed Children of Incarcerated Parents: 

Arrest through Pre-Adjudication, a document 

that examines the points of the criminal 

justice continuum from arrest and jail 

incarceration through pre-adjudication and 

how each of the decision points affects 

children and their families. 

• Developed the Desistance Model, a positive 

way to work with offenders to build skills and 

leverage their strengths to encourage them 

to give up criminal lifestyles.

• Developed the Dosage Probation Model, 

proposes that people receive incentive to 

engage in risk reducing activities by offering 

them early termination of supervision based 

on their ability to reach individualized dosage 

targets and achieve objective behavioral 

indicators. Dosage may be in the form of 

therapies or other programs aimed at 

helping individuals resolve their personal 

issues related to criminal behavior. 

COMMUNITY 

SERVICES

DIVISION

HIGHLIGHTS
A total of 384 ecourses were 

available in FY 

2014. “Your Role 

Responding to 

Sexual Abuse” 

was the most 

popular NIC ecourse with 

15,128 

completions

15,128

To date, over 

140,000 

corrections 

professionals 

have created an 

account in at 

least one of 

NIC’s online 

learning centers.

140,000+

NIC recorded 

67,648 e-course 

completions 

during fiscal 

year 2014, 

which is a 52 

percent increase 

over fiscal year 

2013.

67,684

Over 50,000 

users logged in 

at least once to 

one of NIC’s 

learning centers 

in fiscal year 

2014. This 

equates to a 15 

percent increase 

over logins 

during fiscal 

year 2013.

50,000+

ACADEMY 

 HIGHLIGHTS
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3-4

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7+

TECHNICAL 

ASSISTANCE
Our next story could be 

your own success. 

Ask us how we can serve 

you today.
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