1. Institutional
Corrections

2. Prison Management

3.  Compliance
 Remunerative power
 Normative power
 Coercive power

4.  Confinement Model
 Keep them in
 Keep them safe
 Keep them in line
 Keep them healthy
 Keep them busy

5.  The Organizational Structure
 Concepts of organization
▪ Unity of command
▪ Chain of command
▪ Span of control
▪ Line personnel
▪ Staff personnel

6.  Formal Organization of a Prison for Adult Felons

7.  The Impact of the Structure
 Custody
▪ Warden
▪ Guards
▪ Discipline
 Rehabilitation
▪ Collaborative model

8.  Inmate Balance Theory
 Shared authority
 Administrative Control Theory
 Sound and firm management
 Order
 Amenity
 Service

9.  The Defects of Total Power
 Correctional institutions must be run humanely
 Prisoners are not always motivated to cooperate
 Force is inefficient
▪ Ratio of inmates to staff

10.  Rewards and Punishments
 Reward compliance
▪ Choice job assignments
▪ Honor units
▪ Favorable parole reports
 Punish rule violations

11.  Gaining Cooperation: Exchange
Relationships
 Tolerate minor rule infractions for compliance
on major rules
 Assumptions underlying office to inmate
relationships
▪ Negotiations are central
▪ Informal rules respected by all parties
▪ Some rule violations do not merit officer attention

12.  Inmate Leadership
 Discipline of Prisoners
 The disciplinary
process
 Sanctions

13.  Leadership: The Crucial Element of
Governance
 In particular, management is successful when
prison directors
▪ Are in office long enough to learn the job
▪ Project an appealing image to a wide range of
people
▪ Are dedicated and loyal to the department
▪ Are highly hands-on and proactive

14.  Violence and Inmate Characteristics
 Age
 Attitudes
 Race

15.  Prisoner–Prisoner Violence
 Prison gangs
 Protective custody
 Prison rape
▪ Perpetrators
▪ Victims

16.  Characteristics of Major Prison Gangs

17.  Prisoner–Officer Violence
 Situations requiring use of physical force
▪ Breaking up a fight
▪ Moving a prisoner to segregation
 Unexpected attacks
▪ Missile thrown from an upper tier
▪ Verbal threats or taunts
▪ “Accidental” fall

18.  Officer–Prisoner Violence
 “Goon squads”
 Gladiator days at
Corcoran

19.  Decreasing Prison Violence
 The effect of architecture and size
 The role of management
▪ Improve classification
▪ Create opportunities
▪ Increase size, diversity, and training of staff
▪ Redesign facilities
▪ Install grievance mechanisms
▪ Augment reward system