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Explore professional correctional resources by Virginia Hutchinson on the National Institute of Corrections website, featuring key guides on jail safety and management

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  • document cover for Inmate Behavior Management: The Key to a Safe and Secure Jail
    Accession Number
    023882

    This guide “presents six key elements that, in combination, will help jails reduce a wide array of negative, destructive, and dangerous inmate behavior” (p. v). These elements are: assessing risk and needs; assigning inmates to housing; meeting inmates’ basic needs; defining and conveying expectations for inmate behavior; supervising inmates; and keeping inmates productively occupied.