NCJ Number
91688
Date Published
1983
Length
334 pages
Annotation
Eighteen chapters present a comprehensive view of correctional institutions, including their historical development, physical plants, programs, and the residents they serve; their administration and management; and their future.
Abstract
The rise of institutions is discussed in terms of the first institutions, beginning of confinement, monasteries, private prisons, asylums, prisons and correctional institutions, and the total institution and its population. The organization of correctional institutions is reviewed, including assessment of need, site selection, architecture, and housekeeping. A section on the program and its residents considers custodial control, classification and treatment, patterns of prisoner employment, maximum security society, and riots and disturbances. Also described in this section are the effects of imprisonment, contacts with the outside, and staff society. Special institutions are highlighted, with attention devoted to jails and local detention, juvenile institutions, institutions for females, and institutions for mentally disordered offenders. A section on the administration and management of institutions reviews -- besides administration -- fiscal management and personnel management. A final section looks at the future of correctional institutions. Tables, figures, footnotes, chapter questions, photographs, an index, and about 150 references are included.