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Article: BECOMING A Safer Jail: Measurable Indicators.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
- Author:
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Measuring performance in a jail is a novel idea. However, relating what performance is and how it can be quantified to validate officer safety and wellness is a challenge. Rather than discuss the latest in less-lethal technologies or personal alarm systems, this article will offer guidelines on how to assess the extent of a jail's safety.
Because corrections professionals do not make widgets, there is no corporate measuring tool to indicate to a board of directors that 100,000 more widgets were manufactured successfully this fiscal year. Instead, correctional staff deal in human lives and the measuring tools often are population counts and incidents of inmate ...