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Drowning Is One of the Hardest Homicides to Prove. These Investigators Want to Change That.
NBC News, (06/08/2019), Cara Tabachnick
This article takes an in-depth look at how drowning investigations often miss the possibility of homicide, and at changes in training and techniques that aim to prevent that from happening. It uses the investigation into a case in Mt. Zion, Ill., as a framework.
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Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center to Start New Basic Training Format
KSN.com, (06/10/2019), Tiffany Lane
In an effort to make it easier for departments to hire trained officers, the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center is switching to starting classes more frequently and reducing class size. The goal behind the changes is to reduce the waiting time to gain entrance to the academy, which had been a year or longer.
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All Hillsborough Deputies Will Learn How to De-escalate a Mental Health Crisis
Tampa Bay Times, (06/11/2019), Tony Marrero
At the Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office, a 40-hour crisis intervention training program has become mandatory for all 2,400 sworn deputies. The previously voluntary training also will be updated by local mental health practitioners.
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Corrections News

Yoga Instruction Brings Physical and Mental Health Benefits to Idaho Prisons
Boise State Public Radio (06/06/20199, Gemma Gaudette
This audio piece profiles the work of yoga therapist Kaelyn Rogers with inmates in the Idaho Department of Corrections. Rogers created the program with a goal of using her yoga skills to benefit the community.
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Iowa Prison Program Using Dogs to Rehabilitate Inmates
The Hour, (06/08/2019)
The Fully Rescue Educational Development Program at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility in Iowa pairs inmates with dogs deemed unadoptable due to problem behaviors. The dogs, from the PAW Animal Shelter in Fort Madison, stay with their handlers in the institution as they are trained to make them candidates more suited to adoption.
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Always Faithful: Staff Supports Colleagues Deployed Overseas
Corrections.com, (06/10/2019), John Cokos, New Jersey Department of Corrections
Operation Blue for Green, an unofficial program and social media group created and supported by New Jersey Department of Corrections employees, assembles and delivers care packages and letters for NJDOC employees deployed overseas with various military reserve units. The New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association Local 105 also provides assistance with shipping costs.
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