Accreditations Case

According to Foster (2006) accreditations allow a company to comply with national values. Correctional officers are certified to comply with accreditation. Leaders can always improve professionalization and accreditation. Privatization is a private owned prison usually by individuals or stock holders. State and federal prisons are slighted affected by privatization and hold contracts with state and federal prisons. "What professionalism is to individuals working in the field, accreditation is to organizations--a movement toward higher standards (Foster, pg 180,2006)."

According to Foster (2006) corrections accreditation started in 1978. According to Foster (2006) being a part of accreditation is an ongoing process of evaluations for operations against the national standards, solve deficiencies, and improvement on programs and services. According to Foster (2006) accreditation is to measure a company's compliance with countrywide accepted values. According to Foster (2006) the ACA provides a process that starts with an application leading to a complete audit and approval or denial. The accreditation is good for three years then another audit will be completed again to make sure the company is staying in compliance with the accreditation. According to Foster (2006) this system is a verification process to comply with national standards that are created by the American Corrections Associations. This is achieved by reviewing, evaluating and auditing a company. There are steps that need to be followed in a specific order. According to Foster (2006) the steps are pre-accreditation, applications process, correspondent, the standard compliance audit, accreditation hearing, accredited status and then reaccreditation process.

According to Foster (2006) corrections accreditation affects the professional development of certifying officers. Certification is to teach individuals who work with corrections. Each individual working with corrections will learn professional knowledge to gain certification. According to Foster (2006) since this is an ongoing process, in the past years the qualification to become a corrections officer demands a training program for individuals working with inmates. Since accreditation is good for three years the industry leaders should always keep up on what is needed to keep the accreditation. In order to improve professionalization the industry leaders can look into every corrections officer not only having g a GED but maybe some type of certificate program to improve corrections officers' knowledge of working with prisoners.

Privatization is basically a private association that has contracts with the state and or federal government. According to Foster (2006) privatization can help free up government resources. In previous chapter's a prison in the south during 1980 leased out prisoners for work, this not only paid for the prison but also created a profit and saved money for the government's