Administering the Small and Medium-Sized Jail
Participants are responsible for their own lodging, meals and travel expenses. Lodging is available for $15.00 per day at the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy. Call 740-845-2703 to make reservations.
Completed on Aug. 09, 2010--Jail administrators have an important role in ensuring that jail operations are conducted in a safe, secure, humane, and legal manner. The goal of this program is to provide jail administrators with information and tools that can be used to fulfill this role.
Overview
Jail administrators in small and medium-sized jails must have knowledge and skills in a wide variety of areas to oversee operations and manage specific functions. Each module of this program focuses on specific administrative responsibilities
and tools, including:
- Action planning.
- Using jail standards.
- Managing risk.
- Developing and assessing policies and procedures.
- Determining staffing needs.
- Managing the workforce.
- Managing inmate behavior.
- Developing a fire, safety, and sanitation plan.
- Managing the budget.
- Administrator’s role outside the jail.
- Assessing jail operations.
Audience
This program is open to jail administrators of a full-service, small or medium-sized jail. The jail administrator is defined as the person who directs the day-to-day operations of the jail and is responsible for the overall management of jail operations. If space allows, teams composed of both the jail administrator and the agency chief, ie. sheriff or assistant administrator, or the jail administrator and the assistant jail administrator will be considered.
This program does not have a video.