Chapter 13 Correctional Administration

National Institute of Corrections

An agency within the BOP that is headed by the director appointed by the US attorney general.

LaSalle Corrections

A private company that owns and operates prisons in Louisiana and Texas.

System Wide Administrators

Managers who are at the executive level and direct the entire system throughout the state.

Unit-Level Administrators

Personnel who manage the individual prison facility.

Strategic Plans

Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency, and they state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate.

Reactive Style

When a supervisor waits until a problem develops and then responds to remedy the situation.

Proactive Style

Seek to anticipate and correct problems before they develop.

Authoritarian Model

Features strict control over staff and inmates with communication that flows in a top to bottom process.

Bureaucratic Model

A formal organizational system that is not dependent upon the specific personnel or personalities assigned with it.

Holding Pattern Management

Where the system continues to operate but in a pattern of stasis where there is no true growth, nor is there a blockage in the systemic flow.

Participitive Method of Management

A form of management that includes opinions and feedback offered from both inmates and staff when making decisions regarding the operations and governance of the prison facility.

Prison Grapevine

An informal network of information passed through the personal communications of employees and inmates.

Centralized Management

Tight forms of control in the communication process that ensure that decision making power is reserved for only a small group of people.

Decentralized Management

The authority and responsibility of management are distributed amongst the supervisory chain, allowing decisions to correspond to the problems confronted by each level of management.

Tactical Planning

Ground-level planning that is narrow in focus and structured around the short term resolution of particular issues.

Management

Persons with an official title who tend to be focused on the operational process within the prison facility.

Leadership

Entails skills and talents that motivate and influence persons toward a common goal or idea.

Emotional Intelligence

Describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the emotional cues and information exhibited by others.

Rogues and Mavericks

Employees within a facility who tend to act as if they are independent of the broader institution.

Span of Control

Refers to the number of persons that an officer supervises.

Span of Influence

The extended impact that a supervisor has upon employee behavior.

Glass Ceiling

Barriers to promotion that exist for women within the workforce.

Emergency Preparedness

Consists of the planning, training, and budgeting process that is involved prior to the occurrence of an emergency.

Emergency Response

The intervention used, the management of the intervention, the containment of the emergency, and the successful resolution of the emergency.

Rumor Control

The active process of administrators to circumvent faulty information that is disseminated among staff or inmates and has the potential to cause unrest or disharmony throughout the facility.

Disturbance Control Team

Specialized teams trained to respond to, contain , and neutralize inmate disturbances in prison.

Armed Disturbance Control Team

Deals with disturbances that have escalated to matters of life and death.

Special Operations Response Teams

Teams designed to respond to serious crises within a prison facility.