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Chief Executive Officer of Prison
warden or superintendent
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Responsible for all Staff
- uniformed staff
- professional and administrative staff
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Custody and Security Functions
- charged with mannging
- supervise all areas of prison that house inmates
- uniformed/paramilitary
- largest department of prison workers
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Director/Secretary of a State Department of Corrections
- public & media affairs: interact with television and print media
- legislative liaison: helps to shape new laws and shape corrections policy
- legal advisors: responds to inmate lawsuits, gives legal advice to the director
- internal affairs: inspector within the department who deals with ethical issues
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Department of Correction Functions
- administrative: budget development and accounting, construction of new prisons
- human resources: recruitment and hiring, labor relations, and retirement
- community supervision: in some states the department oversees probation and parole services
- field operations: state prisons may be assigned to a reign and managed regionally
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Treatment Functions
- education and vocational training
- mental health programs
- recreation
- religious services
- substance abuse treatment
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Service Functions
- budget and financing
- maintenance
- laundry operations
- work programs
- food and health service
- commissary
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Unit Management in a Prison
- organizes prisons into smaller components
- enhance staff and inmate interaction
- determine inmate job assignments
- allows for close monitoring of inmate activities
- minimizes inmate behavioral problems
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Controlling Inmate Behavior
- clear policies and procedures
- policies clearing communicated
- consistent implementation of policies
- comprehensive training of staff
- quality assurance - ensuring compliance with prison policies, policy audit, ACAA
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Policy Audit
- review of written prison policy documents
- observation of staff as they perform duties
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American Correctional Association Accreditation
- voluntary
- recognition that prison has met rigorous standards
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Inmate Classification
- controls inmate behavior
- determines inmates' prison security level
- how an inmate is classified my determine the housing assignment
- classification level can act as motivator for good behavior
- inmates are subject to reclassification
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Disciplinary System
- you can lose "good time" credit
- written policy provided to all inmates
- list of fair and equitable sanctions
- control threatening inmates
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