NCJ Number
146887
Date Published
1993
Length
80 pages
Annotation
This report is intended to provide corrections administrators with a better understanding of the correctional process and the management challenges involved.
Abstract
This report is the culmination of an effort to standardize the way data is collected on the delivery of corrections services across Australia. The corrections administrators from Australia's eight jurisdictions and the Australian Institute of Criminology worked to collect data in nine topical areas: security, welfare, health, education and training, work, staffing, costs, recidivism and diversion, and locations. The security area considered data on escapes, incidents involving violence or discipline, classification of prisoners and prisoners placed on protection. Under welfare, the study looked at such prisoner privileges as visitation, telephone calls, religious observance, hours in cell, and grievances. Health data includes information on prisoner deaths, HIV/AIDS testing policy, drug testing and self-inflicted injuries. In the area of education and training, the study focused on the percentage of prisoners taking academic, vocational or personal development courses. The measures considered under the heading of "Work" were the number and percentage of prisoners employed, their pay scale, and unpaid community projects for prisoners. The staffing section provided data on personnel issues such as numbers of staff by gender and position, pay scale, staff/inmate ratios, and turnover. Locations involved a study of useable accommodation available to house prisoners, occupancy rates, and the mapping of the locations of prisons and correctional facilities. Tables, figures, appendixes