Training Problems with Prisons and Jails

RUNNING HEAD : Correctional Officers and Training

Training Problems with Prisons and Jails

Chapter II : Review of Literatures

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Training Problems with Prisons and Jails

Chapter II : Review of Literatures

Introduction

Problem Statement

The job competencies of correctional officers have been questioned in relation to effectiveness of their education course program . Standard correctional officer course comprises phase-by-phase subjects from administration and personnel handling to medical and mental health management . Despite the comprehensiveness of correctional course programs

, critiques and correctional administration question the curriculum effectiveness applied for training correctional officers

Overview : Correctional Officers and Training Problems

Since the late 1970s , formal correctional officer training or guard course program has always been a sporadic and unsuccessful exercise due to the lack of proper policy legislations and insufficient budget provided by prison department 's Technical Support Division (Colvin , 1992 br

.146 . However , as the 21st century approaches , the involvement of the federal and state courts in the demand for increasing the effectiveness accountability , and efficiency of correctional workforce has served to increase as well the bureaucratization within correctional institutions (Levinson , 2002

.327 . Correctional officers are most of the time in contact with the penal environment and various offenders performing their custodial and inmates-control functions (Pollock , 2005

.198 According to Levinson (2002 , the American Correctional Association (ACA ) has reported the average age of correctional officer recruits undergoing correctional training as of 1999 . The average educational attainment among these recruits was high school diploma (p .327...