The challenges confronting a Corrections Manager/Administrator is increasing accountability, civil service, unions, prison overcrowding, special needs inmates, and upgrading correctional personnel. Increasing accountability directly impacts the ability to manage because wardens no longer have absolute control of their prisons or direct access to the governor. Civil service directly impacts the ability to manage because there is now legal standards for hiring, promoting, and firing. It indirectly impacts the ability to manage because the Manager usually does not do the hiring, promoting, and firing. …
