Includes standards covering the critical program areas for effective institutional management, including safety procedures, security, rules and discipline, staff development, physical plant, and health care services.

Includes health care services: access, continuity, treatments, emergency, pregnancy, chronic care, dental, suicide, detoxification, dietary; staff training; offender treatment; performance improvement; offender hygiene; safety and sanitation; administration.

This book -- the Fifth Edition -- includes expected practices covering the critical program areas for effective institutional management, safety procedures, security, rules and discipline, staff development, physical plant and health care services.