Correctional Staffing
Definition
The distinct cadres, custodial, medical and welfare or vocational, that a correctional institution needs at adequate sanctioned strength to function.
Related terms
- Custodial Deaths
- Deaths occurring while a person is in police or prison custody, whether from violence, medical neglect, or suicide connected to institutional conditions.
- Overcrowding
- A prison population that exceeds its officially sanctioned or design capacity, usually expressed as an occupancy percentage or ratio of inmates to...
- Prison Reform
- Committee-driven recommendations, such as the Mulla Committee and the Model Prisons Act, aimed at correcting the recurring failures in correctional administration.
- Privatisation
- The transfer of prison construction, management, or specific services to private for-profit contractors, ranging from full-facility operation to partial outsourcing.
- Understaffing
- A shortfall in sanctioned prison staff strength, particularly custodial, medical and correctional (welfare and vocational) cadres, relative to the population actually housed.
- Undertrial Prisoners
- Persons held in custody while an investigation or trial against them is pending, not yet convicted of the offence for which they...