Chris and Marcus sit down with Jon Hansen from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) to discuss his experience starting out as an institution counselor, becoming a policy and program analyst, and his current role in the community corrections division of DOC.

We reference the study Street-Level Decision Making: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Adult Probation (2017) by Jill Viglione from the University of Central Florida. The study raises several issues with the implementation of evidence-based practices in corrections, and we question whether problems with implementation are unique to the criminal justice system. 

You can find more information on this episode and related links at CorrectionsCommunity.com

This is an introduction to the show and its main contributors, Chris Chandler and Marcus Ford. We discuss the origin of Corrections Community and where we want the project to go with guests and topics related to the field of Corrections.