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Johnnie#1.  

Retention of Employee of Arkansas Dept. of Correction

How to reduce Employment retention of the Arkansas Department of Correction? I started the ADC Agency in 2008 of December there has been lots of employee’s has quit the department. The hiring process is not easy to do when coming to a background check and drug test. After that process, we have to get an individual sign up for the alchemy to go through basic training. The employees working for a longer period can get more familiar with the ADC policies, guidelines. Patenaude and Golden (2000 p50) “Explored the survey results from Phase One to study the singular impact of race on correctional officer attitudes, how race affects Correctional officer decisions to remain with ADC and potential policy implications for correctional agencies. When it comes to employee retention, we have to sit with the employee and discuss the various issues they may face working, in the prison setting Letting them know who fits in the role. 

Why is the turnover rate so high in the Agency? Some are getting four weeks of training, compared to 7 weeks when I came to work for the department. Some correctional officers fired to bring in contraband and trafficking with inmates. Some say it from poorly trained staff who don’t want lockdown and do security rounds throughout the unit. Correction officers said they are paid to low in a place lock gates setting. Many have walked out during to fact that supervisors don’t know how to talk to them and like of respect. Saunderson.R(2004 p267)"The correctional research, although again not in total agreement, indicates that there is no significant relationship between either race or gender and job satisfaction of correctional workers." (Patenaude & Golden, 2000 p50). “The findings led to the decision, to further explore the context of those findings and to gather further information from several CO I’s and CO II’s concerning how they perceived ADC should change to meet their needs as employees. " After surveying Correctional Officer Retention we are focused on exit interviews and identify some of the issues.

References

Patenaude, A. L. (2001). Analysis of Issues Affecting Correctional Officer Retention within the Arkansas Department of Correction. Corrections Management Quarterly, 5(2), 49–67.

' Saunderson, R. (2004). Survey findings of the effectiveness of employee recognition in the public sector. Public Personnel Management. 33, 255-275.

Taylor#2

Prohibition, also known as the Volstead Act, was passed by the 66th United States Congress in spite of Presidents Woodrow Wilson veto and went into full effect in January of 1920. A large religious movement, along with the women’s equality movement were all calling for temperance across the Nation. (Hall, 2010) said, “prohibition is believed widely to have been a misguided and failed social experiment that made alcohol problems worse.” Pg. 1164

Alcohol-related crimes in the U.S. were relatively low prior to the passage of the Volstead Act, however, after the passage of the bill, crime rates, arrests, and prison sentences skyrocketed. Organized crime went into full swing and Illegal bootlegging of alcohol became commonplace.

The crime wave brought with it some of the most notorious gangsters in American history, such as Al Capone, and George Kelley Barnes.

The only thing that Prohibition accomplished was creating a massive black market, a huge crime wave, and increasing the American prison population. In addition to the prison population, it also caused a lot of alcohol related illnesses, and due to more cases of overconsumption, it led to a huge increase in orphaned children. It just goes to prove that if you take something away from people, or if you tell them they cannot have it, they will always find a way. This very same argument is used today in the fight to legalize marijuana across the nation.

References:

Hall W. (2010). What are the policy lessons of National Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, 1920-1933? Addiction, 105(7), 1164–1173. https://doi-org.bethelu.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02926.xaylor#2.