Author: Clemens BartollasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781569912041
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book develops a model of proactive management of prisons, and discusses the role of proactive wardens in implementing and evolving this new approach to corrections. Chapter 1 surveys the careers of three well-respected autocratic wardens of the early 20th century : Lewis E. Lawes (Sing Sing), Clinton Duffy (San Quentin), and Joseph Ragen (Stateville & Joliet). Chapter 2 documents the bureaucratization of corrections following World War II, then the emergence in the 1980s of a new type of correctional administrator - the proactive warden. Chapter 3 examines the major events and changes in the Minnesota Department of Corrections from the late 1960s to the present, and how these changes were experienced and viewed by Frank Wood, a proactive warden. Chapter 4 presents Wood's background, and his views on management in the prison context, leadership, and his own achievements. Chapter 5 adds detail to the proactive model of prison administration, discussing philosophy and practice, approaches, and useful preparatory experiences. Chapter 5 looks at the importance of integrity in proactive prison management, treating others with dignity, having a strong belief system, relating to politicians, and taking a stand on important issues. Chapter 7 focuses on staff development, beginning with the type of staff needed, the role of participative management, motivation, training, and correction of mistakes. Chapter 8 explores how to thrive, considers the problems that wardens will encounter, and the various strategies - hands-on approach, having a clean institution, being predictable, and avoiding surprises - that can be used to manage them. Chapter 8 discusses what it means to manage a humane institutions. Chapter 10 reviews the career of Frank Wood and the leadership of other proactive wardens, and considers the criticisms made of the model.