If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. 41 • CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATORS' SOURCE BOOK Summary of National and Four Regional Training Institutes for Correctional Administrators Made possible by a grant from the Office of Law Enforcement and Assistance, U. S. Department of Justice • Sponsored by AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION ' Woodridge, Station P.O. Box 10176 - Washington, D.C. 20018 301-864-1070 •- • 1966 • TABLE OF CONTENTS - 0- Page PREFACE 1 INTRODUCTION 5 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADMINISTRATORS SECTION I Welcoming Address 14 Keynote Address 17 Opening Session :23 Defining the Objectives of a Modern 28 Correctional Program New Resources for Modern Correctional Systems 35 New Concepts of Treatment . 40 • Research, Demonstration & Pilot Projects 46 Preliminary Findings — Ford Foundation 52 Law Enforcement Assistance Act 56 Summary by Honorable Nicholas dee. Katzenbach 59 Measuring the Effectiveness of Correctional 61 Programs • Role of Management in Introducing Change 68 • Legal Implications of Prisoners' Rights 74 Evaluation Panel Report 87 Future Plans for Training Institutes 91 Summary Report 94 REGIONAL INSTITUTES FOR WARDENS AND SUPERINTENDENTS SECTION II OPENING SESSION Western Region 103 Northeastern Region 106 Southern Region — Keynote Speech •110 Central Region 115 • a TABLE OF CONTENTS Page SECTION III • DEFINING THE OBJECTIVES OF A MODERN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AND THE ROLE OF THE WARDEN OR SUPER— INTENDENT Western Region 123 Northeastern Region 126 Southern Region 131 Central Region 137 SECTION IV NEW RESOURCES FOR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS • Western Region 145 Northeastern Region 156 Southern Region 161 Central Region 164 SECTION V. NEW CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS Western Region 168 Northeastern Region 173 0 Southern Region 177 Central Region 185 SECTION VI ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH FOR CORRECTIONAL • INSTITUTIONS Western Region 191 Northeastern Region 194 Southern Region 197 Central Region 202 • SECTION VII PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE ADMINSTRATION OF JUSTICE • Summary of Sessions at all Institutes 206 • TABLE OF CONTENTS Page • SECTION VIII • THE ROLE OF THE WARDEN OR SUPERINTENDENT IN INSTITUTING CHANGE S Western Region 213 Northeastern Region 216 Southern Region 220 Central Region 227 SECTION IX • IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONS RELATIVE TO PRISONERS' RIGHTS Western Region 233 Southern Region 237 Central Region 249 SECTION X ADVANTAGES OF A PROGRESSIVE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM • Northeastern Region' 254 SECTION XI EVALUATION OF THE INSTITUTES Western Region 258 Northeastern Region 261 Southern Region 264 Central Region 267 • - C - • APPENDIX I Page NATIONAL INSTITUTE • Program A -2 Participants A-11 Recorders A.14 Attendees A-15 Observers A-17 • WESTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE Program A-18 Participants A-23 Attendees A-25 Observers A-27 Recorders A-27 NORTHEASTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE Program A-28 Participants A-34 Attendees A-36 Observers A-38 Recorders A-38 SOUTHERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE Program A-39 Participants A-44 Attendees - A-46 Observers A-48 Recorders A-48 CENTRAL REGIONAL INSTITUTE Program A-49 Participants A-54 Attendees A-56 Recorders A-59 • • APPENDIX II • Page STUDY OF CURRENT ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS 6-1 IN THE FIELD OF CORRECTIONS • • • • SOURCE BOOK FOR CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATORS VOLUME ONE • 1966 National & Regional Institutes for Correctional Administrators PREFACE A major difference between a field that is an art and one that is a science may be found in the degree to which informa- tion, techniques, data and knowledge are mutually exchanged, developed and shared. There are "secrets" to an art which are • jealously guarded by those who possess them in order to avoid the possibility of a competitor obtaining the private informa- tion or know-how. Only when, in any given field, the practi- tioners shared knowledge, and systemized not only the knowledge but also the sharing process, did that field become a science. The field of corrections, so long an art, has embarked upon a C. process of metamorphosis in which it is changing into a science as well as an art. A manifestation of this change, and a stimulus for further change, was the convocation of a national and a se- ries of regional institutes for correctional administrators. It is the purpose of this Source Book for Correctional Administra- tors to compile, set forth, and share the content of these insti- tutions. This Source Book is an attempt to partially fulfill the requirement for a systematized process of data dissemination, and for the sharing of the best available knowledge and thinking. We call this "Volume One" as an expression more of hope than of fact. We cannot now guarantee that there will be sub- sequent volumes which would cover additional and adjunctive topics and concerns. The compilation of future volumes depends upon the availability of funds and, presently, no such funding exists. There was a time when there were no real grounds for hoping that institutes on a national and regional level could be convened, as they were in 1966. Indeed, years of hopes and • dreams preceded the event. This is equally true of this Source Book which reports on the content of these institutes. But, having accomplished this once, there are now sounder grounds for hoping for more and better. A precedent has.been set which puts a new face on the future. • The institutes, themselves, and this Source Book, were made possible by a grant of funds by the Law Enforcement Assist- ance Office of the United States Department of Justice to the • • Research Council of the American Correctional Association. The National Institute was planned jointly with the Correctional Administrators' Association, while the Regional Institutes were cooperation with the Wardens' Association of planned in America. • Eloth of these professional associations are affiliates of the American Correctional Association. The National Institute for Administrators of State Correctional Systems was held February 19-23, 1966, at the University of Maryland. There were four separate Regional Institutes for Wardens and Superintendents of Correctional Institutions: The Western Regional Institute, 0 May 4-7, 1966, held at Enumclaw, Washington (University of Wash- ington); the Northeastern Regional Institute, May 31-June 4, 1966, held at Pennsylvania State University; the Southern Region- al Institute, July 17-21, 1966 held at the University of Georgia; and, the Central Regional Institute, October 3-7, 1966, held at Carbondale, Illinois (Southern Illinois University). The admin- • istrators and faculty of these five universities are due special appreciation and recognition for their aid, services, and good- will support that contributed so greatly to the success of the institutes, and presenting yet another demonstration of the growing relationships between the correctional field and the academies of higher learning. The organizational style of this volume was designed to convey to the readers a picture of the national scope attendant to the topics that were the back-bones of these institutes. We could have chosen to organize this material by institute, pre- senting the material of each institute apart from the material • of the other institutes. We rejected that form of presentation in favor of organizing the material according to topics. Inas- much as the topics were the same in each of the four regional institutes, this gives the reader the chance to compare and contrast the expressions of each of these regions on a topic by topic basis, a far more specific method of comparison than one • which is based upon the entire content of each regional institute. The National Institute for Administrators of State Correctional Systems is presented as a separate unit and entity primarily because the national picture cannot and should not be confused with the regional. The National Institute was the keystone on which the regional institutes were based. In the material that • follows, the National Institute is presented first, and the regional material is then presented topic by topic. Under each topic will be found what each region had expressed, and these regional expressions are given in the same chronological order in which the regional institutes took place: Western, North- eastern, Southern, Central. • - 2 - • • It is not possible to list the names of all those who made these institutes and this books reality. Quite literally, there were hundreds of persons who contributed in one manner or another, and the contribution of each is highly valued and es- • teemed. The names of the participants in these institutes, as well as the names of the recorders, may be found in the section of this book which immediately follows the title page. The names of those who attended these institutes are listed in the appendix. The contents of this source book concern themselves only with the materiel that was formally presented at the various sessions. What is not included in this book are the several hundreds of informal discussions and interchanges of ideas that took place in hallways, corridors, meal times, leisure hours and, subsequently, in the exchange of mail. The pooling of in- formation and ideas, both formally and informally, is not a cu- mulative process in which the ideas of 50 people are merely added one to the other. In an atmosphere that is supercharged by ideas that carom off of each other, there is created a stim- ulus which produces ideas that would otherwise not have been born. Through the impact of idea upon idea, an interaction occurs which can bring the thinking of individuals and of groups to heights that only the rarest of persons working alone could achieve, and then only infrequently. It was this atmosphere which pervaded these institutions and, even weeks and months later, letters and phone calls are being received and exchanged which indicate that ideas end actions still flow from the stim. ulus of these institutes. As a further aid to this interaction, several steps were taken in the manner in which the sessions were structured and organized. One.of these steps was to hold each workshop in a separate self-contained facility unto itself.