sidebar - Correctional Policy and Procedure

Responding to Parole and Probation Violations: A Handbook to Guide Local Policy Development

This handbook discusses policy responses to probation and parole violations that enhance the effectiveness of supervision while also improving community safety. 

Chapters include: 

• Critical issues in violations -- an overview; 
• The importance of vision, mission, goals, and core values; 
• Collaboration -- a central ingredient for success; 
• Developing baseline information; 
• Supervision; 
• Developing tools to make the policy work; 
• Increasing available choices to violation response; 
• Outcome-based interventions; 
• Monitoring the impact of the policy; 
• And tangible outcomes.

Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates: Policy Development Guide for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators

Tools to assess an organization and implement strategies to prevent staff sexual misconduct in a jail setting are provided. 

The following sections comprise this document: 

• introduction; 
• using this guide; 
• how to know if an agency needs a policy -- 
  • what staff sexual misconduct is, 
  • definitions, 
  • red flags, 
  • and writing policies and procedures; 
• and agency triage -- 
  • administrative and management practices, 
  • security and supervision, 
  • investigations, 
  • and inmate programming.

Developing and Revising Detention Facility Policies and Procedures

A "basic, updated guide to assist local detention administrators in developing and revising their policy and procedure manuals" is presented (p. 1). 

Following an introduction, this manual addresses: 

• the development and revision process; 
• developing policies and procedures; 
• preparing the manual; 
• policy and procedure implementation; 
• monitoring staff compliance; 
• and maintaining the manual. 
• Appendixes provide: 
  • a sample policy and procedure manual topic outline; 
  • a scenario planning worksheet; 
  • examples of policies and procedures from detention facility manuals; 
  • a writing style checklist; 
  • and a sample policy and procedure format.

Resource Manual for Transition to a New Jail

"[T]his resource document will assist agencies starting the process of planning for a successful transition to a new detention facility" (p. iii). Nine chapters comprise this manual: introduction; transitional management; construction; staff/human resources; document development; training and orientation; furniture, fixtures, equipment, and supplies; move logistics; and transition themes of managing change and community relations.

Policy and Procedures Development

Guidelines for the creation of mission statements, policies, and procedures are presented. While this document is focused on jail facilities, much of it is applicable to other types of agencies. 

The contents of this document include: 

• critiques of individual policies for inmate rules and regulations, commissary orders, reporting of maintenance problems, and night lock-up of residents; 
• mission statement -- definition, rationale, and development criteria; 
• policy and procedures -- definitions and rationale; 
• policy and procedure content elements; 
• policy construction criteria; 
• procedure...

Gender-Responsive Policy Development in Corrections: What We Know and Roadmaps for Change

"Correctional policy and procedure drives decisions in the management and rehabilitation of offender populations. The continuously emerging research on female offenders highlights differences from their male counterparts, particularly in the areas of health, mental health, substance abuse and risk. Yet correctional policies rarely reflect those differences and where adaptations are made it is often not in policy or directive, contributing to tremendous inconsistency in the management of women offenders. 

One of the most common requests received from the women offender...