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  • 023147

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  • Published 2011.
  • 114 pages

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ASCA Performance Standards, Measures, and Key Indicators (With Counting Rules)

Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: Jul. 01, 2008
ANNOTATION: Key indicators and data elements for prison performance standards are described. Sections of this manual are: contextual information--organizational and facility characteristics; public safety -- escapes and returns to prisons; institutional safety -- inmate-on-inmate assaults, inmate-on-staff assaults, inmate-on-inmate sexual violence, inmate-on-staff sexual violence, staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct, inmate-on-inmate homicides, inmate-on-staff homicides, inmate suicides, positive drug tests, disturbances, cell searches, major contraband finds, and use of force; substance abuse -- substance abuse assessments and intervention; mental health services--mental health assessments, treatment, and facilities; justice--notification, grievances, lawsuits and class action cases, disciplinary reports, administrative segregation, and protective custody; academic education--education needs, enrollment, and slots; and health care--medical services provided, medical problems, treatment, and facilities; fiscal—adult correctional agency appropriations, funding sources, and contractual service expenditures; and personnel—adult correctional agency staffing.
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