> Best Practices in Prison Staffing Analysis (2004) - Through a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Corrections, CJI is developing a training program, with accompanying materials, to be used by state correctional agencies to train their staff on how to conduct prison staffing analyses. Three focus group meetings have been facilitated with select groups of practitioners from diverse state correctional agencies.

> Leading and Sustaining Change (2003 - 2004) - Through a cooperative agreement with NIC, CJI is embarking on a project, entitled "Leading and Sustaining Change." The project, which builds upon what has been learned from the "Assessment of Institutional Culture" project, focuses on organizational change, leadership and culture.

> Managing Elderly Inmates and Inmates with Chronic Terminal Illnesses (2002-2004): Through a cooperative agreement with NIC, CJI identified the most promising approaches to addressing the needs of special needs inmates. The project resulted in a manual published in 2004, entitled "Correctional Healthcare: Addressing the Needs of Elderly, Chronically Ill and Terminally Ill Inmates."

> Prison Culture Assessment (2001 - 2004): Through a cooperative agreement with NIC, CJI has developed, field-tested and applied a Prison Culture Assessment Protocol in the process of assessing the institutional culture in 20 state and federal prisons and one large county jail. Six more prisons will be assessed over the next several months. The lessons learned from the process have been used by prison administrators to improve the culture and in particular to promote and instill more positive beliefs and values in the workforce.