NCJ Number
128236
Journal
Corrections Today Dated: (February 1990) Pages: 24,26,28
Date Published
1990
Length
3 pages
Annotation
The Key Indicators/strategic Support System is presented as a tool for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to use in strategic planning and quality control to plan for the continuing inmate population increase.
Abstract
The Key Indicators System is a comprehensive data management system that gives users access to a wide variety of BOP information. It allows managers to become self-sufficient by giving them the needed information to plan, direct, monitor, and control quality. The system contains information on the national Bureau as well as on each BOP institution, region, and security level. Specific information includes rated capacity, admissions and discharges, average daily population, inmate demographics, security designation, custody classification, urine tests, assaults, escapes, disciplinary hearings, inmate grievances, education program enrollments and completion, staff demographics, staff perceptions of institutional social climates, and financial management. For example, administrators can make comparisons of institutions in their regions using the Key Indicators to monitor the impact of increasing inmate populations on staff-to-inmate ratios.