Recruiting and Retaining Personnel (graded)
Why do practitioners and scholars alike contend that recruitment methods, enticements, and endorsements as well as job performance expectations must take into account the employees generation?
If you applied for a position with your local jail, what factors would play the most important role in your decision to accept an offer of employment? What factors would most likely support your decision to continue your employment with this agency and which factors would likely promote attempts to secure employment with another agency?
Roll Call Training (graded)
You are the night supervisor at your local jail. Identify a problem shared by several of the newly hired detention officers on your shift and discuss how you would address this problem at your next nightly roll call training. Given budget limitations, what innovative means would you employ to provide the training necessary to deal with the problem(s) you have identified?
week 6
PLRA (graded)
Familiarize yourself with the issues addressed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) by conducting a brief review of information available from credible Internet publications. Discuss reasons why some feel the PLRA should be reformed and summarize the elements of the arguments in support of this movement. Also indicate in your response whether you agree or disagree with the reasons given and explain why you feel reform is or is not needed.
Jail Standards (graded)
Familiarize yourself with the standards in place for jail facilities as well as the American Correctional Association (ACA) standards and accreditation process through a brief review of the published literature available from the Internet. Then comment on why you think your states correctional facilities would or would not seek accreditation under ACA.