Prison administrators carry out important responsibilities to ensure that offenders are rightfully corrected. In these efforts, there are diverse goals for the department of corrections. The most crucial one concerns interrelation among various realms of authority and accountability. In so doing, prison administrators respond to diverse external administrative and political powers as well as deal with dissimilar provisions for funding (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2013). The prison management comprises three stages of analysis including the society, the department of corrections (DOC) and service delivery. At the societal level, power and influence are the largest factors prison administrators have to deal with to undertake their goals. Together with authority, these factors come with vested interests that must be protected. For instance, prison administrators need to be influential to control prison operations.

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Firstly, politics represents the interests of people in a given locality. In this right, the prison administrators must achieve the goal of maintaining a safe and secure atmosphere for inmates and prison staff. It sets the stage for controversy which greatly affects the management of these facilities. Additionally, prison administrators must be effective in the way they authorize actions to lawbreakers as well as provide services hedged in the spirit of correcting their behavior (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2013). Meanwhile, in carrying out their duties, prison administrators face the challenges of tighter budgets as well as internal and external interests. Additionally, during recessions, inadequate resources further impede correctional activities. To overcome the challenges, proper planning is required. Coupled with increased bureaucracy in the prison departments, the challenges augment power-related concerns in the correction facilities. Managers of correctional should design programs, strategies, policies, and activities related to the correction of offenders without largely affecting their original environment (Stojkovic & Lovell, 2013). Cultural considerations should be prioritized in the management of the correction facilities because they strongly influence correctional outcomes for offenders. For instance, there exist various predominant orientations, perspectives, and attitudes regarding the activities of the prison department. The management is usually forced to align its activities with such cultural expectations.

References

Stojkovic S. & Lovell R. (2013). Corrections: An introduction. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.