NCJ Number
123382
Date Published
1990
Length
184 pages
Annotation
Designed to assist line supervisors for correctional industries, this handbook serves as a daily, hands-on guide to the basic business principles for industries shops.
Abstract
The section on "management in a correctional setting" describes the setting for correctional industries and discusses security issues as well as incentives and benefits provided inmates in correctional industries. A section that reviews the skills required to supervise inmates discusses the self-assessment of current skills, aspects of supervision, inmate personnel procedures, the probationary period, counseling, time management, the evaluation of inmate workers, management reports, and stress management. Training skills and financial-management skills are reviewed in separate sections. Handbook sections that provide technical information on industry production and operations cover procurement, production management, quality control, safety and sanitation, and marketing and sales. 34-item bibliography, subject index.