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 construction criteria;
- policy and procedure format;
- sources of policy and procedure topic items;
- policy and procedure manual contents;
- and implementation of the policy and procedure manual.