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- Title
METHODS OF SELECTING PRISON PERSONNEL.
- Authors
Lundberg, D. E.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the selection of prison personnel. The warden, the educational director and the industrial director, as well as the lay public define the "good" guard variously. To the warden the "good" guard is the good "jail man", who can take a group of inmates outside and bring all back, he is courageous, he is a leader by force of personality and "guts". To the educational director he is one who understands human nature and the principles of motivation, he is the "good-influence", understanding and versed in the tools of tuition. To the industrial director the good guard is the mechanic who knows his trade and can relay his knowledge to the inmate and maintain production. The public's definition probably includes reforming, punishing and keeping the prisoner locked up. The function of the Prison Guard in the state correctional institutions is ambiguous. Both the public and administrators give lip service and partially expect the Guard to be a positive agent for the rehabilitation of inmates, yet the primary and in some cases, the exclusive function of the guard is concerned with the detention and custody of inmates.
- Subjects
PRISON wardens; PRISON administration; CORRECTIONAL personnel; PRISONERS; CORRECTIONAL institutions; CRIMINAL justice personnel
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1947, Vol 38, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1138814