Solitary Confinement: The Role Of Leadership In Prison

The role leadership plays in correctional facilities, is putting prisoners in isolation for weeks, months, and even years at a time is standard operating procedure. Solitary confinement is used in prisons, to keep order among troubled, and dangerous inmates. As described by Hatch, 2013, “institutionalization, presents the myth that hides an organizations behavior from the public view and allows cooptation of resources to go undetected for long periods of time” (Hatch, & Cunliffe 2013, pg. 36).
Correctional leadership and solitary confinement, is facing new scrutiny. In this extreme environment, many prisoners suffer serious psychological and physical deterioration. Prisoners entering solitary confinement with mental-health issues often find those issues severely exacerbated (Bennion, 2015). Prison officers and guards, work in extreme conditions, such as, inmate idleness, lack of privacy, sexual frustration of inmates, and inter-personal and intergroup conflict of subordinates.
According to Steinbuch, 2014, Controlling behavior through strict discipline has remained critical to the management of penal institutions while corporal punishment has seen major reforms in the last century, the increased use of
Subculture is a subset of an organizations members that identifies as a distinct group based on similarity or familiarity (Hatch, & Cunliffe 2013, pg. 159). Most organizations with in the correctional system share the same professional identities. For example, the correctional system is comprised of, the Judicial system, court system, lawyers, prison administrators, prison Wardens, Supervisors, and correctional officers. They all share the same goals of serving justice, and keeping the bad guys off the streets. Prisons administer punishment and manage facilities consistently with prevailing policy standards, which views prisons as places to incarcerate and punish inmates to deter crime (Steinbuch,