How to Run a Correctional Facility to Function Efficiently and with Improvements

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In order to lead a correctional facility you must be able to assess unending operational, tactical and organizational concerns. For this to happen there is two inevitable responsibilities that have to drive leaders. The first one is the correctional facility has to function efficiently. In this field people’s lives are in jeopardy every single day. Next the facility should always be in a better form than it was.
This correctional facility is implementing a new offender management system which will help in categorizing inmates in relation to their rank of custody, work release program status and the type of programming they are required to have for rehabilitation. Increased by many lawsuits and overcrowding of this prison this new offender management system is a needed means for assigning inadequate prison resources professionally and reducing the likelihood of potential violence or escape. This new offender system will definitely be the intellect of the management by overseeing significant decisions such as levels needed for officers, types of curriculum for offenders and even bed space.
Even though this new system is needed there are issues that are still unresolved within this prison. The issues that the prison will be faced with is decisions that direct housing, programs and work details that need to made as prepared and put in order at the external levels as well as within the prison itself. Since this prison facility is extremely overcrowded the classification decisions that are made internally play a more of an important function. Since crimes are higher in this country the prison population is on the rise decisions leading to housing and/or programs, mainly for the inmates who have been sentenced for mandatory long se...

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...o be specific essentials ready. Communicating strategy is communicating change. The change strategy in this correctional facility will rely on a nonstop training method intended for communication strategies that are used by employees.

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Stojkovic, Kalinich, & Klofas, (2012). Criminal Justice Organization: Administration and management. (5th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
U.S Department of Justice, (2004). Enhancing Prison Classification Systems:
The Emerging Role of Management Information Systems. Retrieved from http://static.nicic.gov/Library/019687.pdf

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