Correctional Management

The Correctional Management topic gives corrections leaders news and information to help them lead their staff and manage their facility in the face of tough issues like shrinking budgets and overcrowding. This topic also gives corrections officers an avenue to prepare themselves for a rise through the ranks.

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The importance of inmate classification
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Performing the classification process early, and continuously, helps ensure a safe and secure facility
Why facilities should rotate inmate workers
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Regular rotation of inmate workers can minimize over-familiarity and complacency between officers and inmates
Inmate classification and housing
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The inmate classification process should occur early to help identify inmates who are violent, predatory, or at-risk
Why everyone is responsible for keeping the jail clean
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Keeping the jail clean may fall into the box of "other duties assigned" but that does not mean officers should disregard the importance of jail cleanliness
Protective custody considerations
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As correctional professionals, you must recognize those inmates who require protective custody
Duty to protect inmates
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Protecting inmates is not only our mandate, it is the right thing to do
Consider direct supervision in your jail
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While direct supervision is nothing new, some people still don't understand the benefits of the concept
How to make emergency preparedness a priority
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Steps correctional facilities can take to ensure staff are prepared for when the next emergency hits
Planning for the mass movement of inmates
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Evacuating a correctional facility is a worst-case scenario for correctional leaders – here's what to consider ahead of time
Identifying, classifying and segregating special management inmates
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Correctional officers must separate and appropriately supervise these inmates
Women in jail: How to secure successful outcomes
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Jail policies and classification systems have been largely developed based on the male population
Why things go right and why things go wrong
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Risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham explains why things go wrong and why things go right in public safety using his high-risk, low-risk, high-frequency, low-frequency chart. Graham explains the five reasons he believes mistakes are made in high-frequency environments, and how first responders can combat those pitfalls.
Is your facility ready for a pandemic?
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Risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham discusses how a pandemic plan is a vital resource for public safety organizations in the event of a widespread public health crisis.

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Do correctional leaders understand what job satisfaction means to line staff?
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In 2009, the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded a study to enhance hiring, retention and leadership development by providing correctional leaders with evidence-based workplace insights. Over 2,000 line staff and 500 administrators responded, but their views on job satisfaction and their work environments were vastly different. In this tip, Lexipol co-founder Gordan Graham shares why leaders must understand how line staff perceive job satisfaction in order to improve correctional officer recruitment and retention.

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Ariz. jail offers tablets to inmates as part of new program
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Pima County Jail offers inmates tablets to inmates at a cost to inmates and their families. Everything sent and received is vetted.
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