How to Run a Direct Supervision Housing Unit: A Training Curriculum
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 05, 2008
ANNOTATION: Developed for line staff, this 32-hour workshop covers 12 steps to effective inmate management. Segments include:
- Orientation to direct supervision
- The officer's role in the unit
- Principles of running a direct supervision housing unit
- Building flexibility in your leadership style
- Planning and organizing in the unit
- Managing differences in the unit
- Managing inmate behavior, and difficult situations & inmates
- Establishing yourself in the unit
- Housing unit laboratory.
The goal of the workshop is to provide officers skills that will enable them to operate a direct supervision housing unit. Lesson plans and a participant manual are included.
Also included is the 26 minute video entitled, "Jails in America: A Report on Podular Direct Supervision." This video provides information regarding the three types of jail design and inmate management (i.e., linear/intermittent surveillance, podular/remote supervision, and podular/direct supervision); benefits of direct supervision; the eight key principles of direct supervision; inmate management strategies; booking; orientation; classification; the day room; the housing unit; disciplinary segregation housing; and inmate programs. Jail officials from around the U.S. comment on direct supervision.