employee

Overview: Employees are the biggest valuable assets in corrections, especially when managed, trained, and appropriately utilized for success. Corrections rely on well-trained, experienced, and devoted workforces to provide their community with the most cost-effective required security service and stay on track with the larger mission of public safety. The physically and mentally demanding work conditions in correctional settings are associated with numerous health and performance outcomes like exhaustion, psychological distress, dissatisfaction, and impaired work ability.

Overview: Employees are the biggest valuable assets in corrections, especially when managed, trained, and appropriately utilized for success. Corrections rely on well-trained, experienced, and devoted workforces to provide their community with the most cost-effective required security service and stay on track with the larger mission of public safety. The physically and mentally demanding work conditions in correctional settings are associated with numerous health and performance outcomes like exhaustion, psychological distress, dissatisfaction, and impaired work ability.

Overview: Employees are the biggest valuable assets in corrections, especially when managed, trained, and appropriately utilized for success. Corrections rely on well-trained, experienced, and devoted workforces to provide their community with the most cost-effective required security service and stay on track with the larger mission of public safety.

The American Correctional Association (ACA), under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, visited Davidson County Sheriff’s Staff Wellness program. Our goal is to study and learn more about the exemplary practices of staff wellness programs in correctional agencies that have developed and offered wellness programs to their staff. The team interviewed appropriate agency staff of the agency's preference, such as human resource administrators, wellness providers,
wellness program administrators, and other related employees.

The article covers the challenges in employee recruitment and retention in correctional agencies. It points out the strategies and trends that correctional agencies should follow to improve their staff recruitment and process. It also discusses how staff wellness programs can help to attract and retain workforces in corrections.