Correctional Management
Correctional Management encompasses the strategies, policies, and practices of running correctional facilities effectively and safely. This section offers articles that delve into various aspects of Correctional Management, including leadership, staff training, inmate rehabilitation, and security measures. Effective management is crucial for maintaining order, ensuring safety, and fostering a rehabilitative environment within correctional institutions. Explore related topics on corrections policies for additional insights into the challenges of managing complex correctional systems.
The duty to intervene in an excessive force situation is your legal and moral responsibility
Staff training on manipulation and improper relationships is key and must be constant and clear for all sworn and non-sworn staff
How leadership failures, unchecked behavior and inadequate training contribute to toxic correctional environments — and what it takes to change the culture
Until the county gets a bigger jail the sheriff is trying small changes, like serving fresh fruit more often and expanding board game privileges, to keep the peace
Chadwick Dotson, a retired judge and former chair of the parole board, aims to reduce the state’s recidivism rate
Managing incoming offenders can present distinct challenges
The German Shorthaired Pointers and their handlers will detect drugs in Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office jails and courthouse holding areas
While awaiting sentencing of 10 years to life, David Lettieri has filed 51 lawsuits since November engaging “in a pattern of abuse of the judicial process”
Recent escapes in county jails have representatives increasingly concerned about security and punishing escapees
The rare lockdown in the nation’s largest prison system, which comes during a heat wave, is happening as officials ‘confront the root causes’ of drug contraband and violence
Manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante continues into its second week and a tower officer has been put on leave as part of the escape investigation
A majority of first responder agencies lack necessary funds for purchasing equipment and technology
200 COs, who oppose the move, and the 500 inmates they oversee will be relocated from the floating jail to Rikers Island
According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors”
The union representing Stillwater’s COs said such conditions upset inmates because of restrictions on recreation time “when there are not enough security staff to protect the facility”
County officials say the state’s funding approach will continue to lead to budget shortfalls that limit staff and increase overcrowding
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
Lieutenant (Ret.) Gary Cornelius discusses steps you can take to maintain officer morale while providing quality supervision of inmates and enhancing the careers of staff.
Read this report to better understand the factors that affect staffing in the corrections environment and what steps you can take to address the challenges.
Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”
Even after $100M in recent funding more is needed to increase pay to reduce chronic staffing shortages and make overdue repairs
Paul Flores, hospitalized in serious condition, was sentenced in March for 25 years to life for the 1996 killing
Officials asked for more staff after a High Desert State inmate was fatally stabbed with a prison-made shank by another prisoner who escaped his separation cage
Sheriff Patrick Labat says the jail will follow “our normal practices” when former President Trump arrives for booking
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
“It is incredibly important our hardworking correctional officers get paid what they deserve,” Gov. Jim Justice said
“There are many routes that one can take to end up in jail....this is a new one,” the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said
The report states there was also no captain on duty as a result of a staffing issue that left the Vierno Center eight captains short on the day the inmate died
The riot at Lee Correctional Institution left seven dead and more than a dozen injured; it was the deadliest prison riot in the U.S. in the last 25 years
There are 25 open positions at the Hamilton County jail, down from 60 when the sheriff was elected; the sheriff attributes that to a salary raise
The CO felt contraction-like pains at work, but her supervisor kept her at her post for hours despite her requests to leave, according to the lawsuit
“Stabbings and slashing will exceed 300 this year with 6,000 uses of force — much high than other jail systems,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Powell said
Judge: Inmate’s constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment may have been violated after officials repeatedly scheduled his execution
