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.
Inmates who helped raise service dogs were reunited with their former pups and met the people now benefiting from their efforts
With a 26% vacancy rate in state-run prisons, Tennessee is forming a 20-member floating security team to fill staffing gaps across facilities
The group calls on Congress to change federal law to help corrections officials stop inmates from using contraband phones to commit crimes
The facility will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and inmates serving sentences will be moved elsewhere in the state’s penitentiary system
A report from a public defender claims youth detainees are living in squalid conditions with limited access to healthcare and education
The DOC would be required to pick up inmates awaiting transport within three business days of sentencing
Charlie Bracey saved an inmate’s life and a year later was disciplined for allegedly failing to respond to the attack
Attorney for nurses said allegations “have spawned numerous social media and other very adversarial threats”
The window Jeremy Taylor escaped through was in a video blind spot and the cameras aren’t monitored 24/7
Bryant Holmes won compensatory damages for his claim of a hostile work environment at the Kansas City Reentry Center
Official: “Detention is ineffective. It’s expensive. And it produces even worse conduct. But that’s the first instinct: ‘Lock ‘em up!’”
Prosecutors described Hossein Nayeri as a “psychopath” and a “truly diabolical criminal”
Bill passed to lower minimum hiring age brings a new detention deputy to Lexington County
The man claims officers allowed him to be assaulted by other inmates while being held in the Woodbury County Jail
The final version didn’t place any restrictions on how long a prisoner can remain in solitary
The money “will enable the complete closure” of the state’s only women’s prison
About 181,500 veterans are incarcerated and make up about 8% of the state prison population and 5% of the federal prison population
Last year, a bill was signed into law to lower the minimum age for detention deputies from 21 to 18
The analysis also found inmate killings continued at high rates, with 30 homicides in 2022, the same number as in each of the previous two years
The reversal comes one day after the county had rejected a plea from Prison Law Office advocates to provide warmer clothing
Currently, DACA recipients can become troopers, game wardens, COs and serve in the Wisconsin National Guard
A deputy and two officers were killed and several others wounded in the deadliest single day for law enforcement in the state since 1923
Sheriff Robert Luna said he felt “just sadness” after hearing reports of the mistreatment and poor conditions inside the jails
19-year-olds can join at a salary of up to $68K with a $2,500 signing bonus and become eligible for the state’s 100% tuition reimbursement program
Onondaga County Sheriff Toby Shelley says he won’t move inmates until a feasibility study has been done
The investigation was opened after deaths in county jails hit a two-decade high last year and other allegations of excessive use of force surfaced
The sheriff said rumors circulating in the jail prompted the “ugly” investigation and the conclusions “sickened” him
The therapists serving Schenectady County have backgrounds in trauma, and insurance is not required
Jail video shows Anthony Mitchell was kept naked in a concrete-floored isolation cell, according to the lawsuit
Maine’s facilities have grown much of their own food in on-site organic gardens, baked all their own breads and bought discounted produce and grains
The 24-page document claims that the “draconian confinement” is harming the inmate’s unborn child
A Luzerne County Correctional Facility lieutenant says COs need more training on how to recognize inmates at risk
“His messaging has ... impaired some of the respect our staff get out in the jails from their DOC staff colleagues,” Amanda Masters said
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