DC Public Safety Radio won the 2015 awards for best podcast and best audio from the National Association of Government Communicators. DC Public Safety Radio and Television won the Government Customer Service Community of Practice (Cgov) 2014 Overall Excellence and Best Use of technology Awards. See conta.cc/1qiBV74 . DC Public Safety Television won two top awards for public affairs television in 2015 from DCTV and three additional first-place awards in 2014 Welcome to “DC Public Safety” – Radio and television shows, blog and transcripts on crime, criminal offenders, and the criminal justice system. For FY 2013 through FY 2015, we recorded 218,700 unique visitors, 633,000 visits and 1,924,300 page views (excluding robot searches). This is radio show 269. The portal site for “DC Public Safety” is http://media.csosa.gov Subscribe to “DC Public Safety” through iTunes. See transcript at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2016/03/tablets-corrections-transcript/ Current Radio Program: Today’s program focuses on tablets in corrections. Tablets are seen by many in criminal justice to be a unique and affordable method of delivering educational, vocational and substance abuse services through recorded or live programs. They are also seen as a device for frequent communications with family and other prosocial members of society. Some in corrections cite cost and security concerns as reasons to proceed cautiously. To examine these issues, we interviewed Randy Kearse and Chenault. Randy Kearse is founder of Reentry Strategies, a multimedia company that creates innovative content to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women successfully transition from prison, back to their family, community, and society. He’s executive producer of the film series, Beyond Prison Probation and Parole. His website is at http://www.randykearse.co/reentry-strategist/. Chenault Taylor is the Director of Public Relations at Edovo, a Chicago-based social enterprise. Edovo is committed to improving outcomes for those in jail and prison during incarceration, and after release, through secure tablet technology that enables self-driven, incentive-based education and rehabilitation. The website for Edovo is https://edovo.com/. Special Announcements: A top priority for the Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice. A new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the “What Works Clearinghouse” can be seen at http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works. The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council. Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm . The Office of Violence Against Women offers stalking response tips for corrections, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, victims and victim advocates. They are posted on OVW’s website at www.ovw.usdoj.gov . The National Institute of Corrections Information Center is one of the largest repositories[...]