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Pracademically Speaking The PA Prisons and Parole Podcast
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Pracademically Speaking is a podcast intended to highlight innovations within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC). Each episode includes an interview with a national expert on a particular topic relevant to the field, and also an interview with a PA DOC staff member who is leading the way in doing something cutting edge or innovative within the department. The podcast is sponsored by the department’s I.D.E.A. initiative – Innovate, Develop, Experiment, Adapt. A primary goal of the podcast is to bring together thought leaders (academics, practitioners, and policymakers) to stimulate further thinking about how to solve real world problems within the field of corrections, by highlighting and communicating groundbreaking work that is already being done.
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Innovations Around the Opioid Epidemic
In this episode, we talk to the PA DOC’s first ever winner of the Staff Innovations Award, Parole Agent Louis Zayon, about his lead in cleaning up a large open air drug market in Philadelphia. We also talk with Stanford University psychiatrist Keith Humphreys about what we know and don’t know on effective criminal justice … Continue reading "Innovations Around the Opioid Epidemic"
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Understanding IADSS
In this episode, a team of Industrial Engineers from Lehigh University (now affiliated with a start-up company called Optamo) talk about the Inmate Assignment and Decision Support System (IADSS) that they built for PA DOC. This innovative system is the first of its kind in the country. We also talk with current and former staff … Continue reading "Understanding IADSS"
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Pracademically Speaking: The Basics of BetaGov
Introducing a new series of Lockup Lowdown: Pracademically Speaking, a series hosted by Dr. Kristofer “Bret” Bucklen, DOC’s director of planning, research and statistics. Bucklen is also the agency’s lead for BetaGov. In this first episode, meet Angela Hawken, PhD, a professor at NYU and founding director of BetaGov. Later in the episode, Bureau of … Continue reading "Pracademically Speaking: The Basics of BetaGov"