Effective leadership in correctional settings: A study in Gujarat prisons
- The Indian Police Journal
- 68(3), Jul-Sep, 2021: p.104-113
Developing countries often lack the crucial resources for their prisons to live up to international standards. It could be in terms of lack of funds, trained personnel, technology, infrastructure, or expertise to proceed with all of the necessary reforms in a given situation. Irrespective of all odds, dedicated leaders accomplish significant progress and work towards raising the standard of their work in prison and uplift the quality of life of prisoners in the prisons , where prisoners focus is on their primary objective to reforming themselves. The constant challenge to work and perform in the odd situation such as COVID 19 or any other challenges adhere to the compliance. Prisons can be a difficult place for prison management and inmates especially when they work without the fundamental human, physical and monetary assets. The work of leadership is unavoidably an extremely difficult one. It plainly requires the full responsibility of a solid, committed, inventive and persisting person. Prison leaders frequently need to manage a fairly narrow public view of the goals of imprisonment. A great many people would like to see detainees punished as opposed to rehabilitated unless we have reformative leadership. . The objectives of the paper is to study leadership functioning in prisons worldwide and to examine the nature of leadership, its effects on prison inmates in Gujarat prisons. It will also study how the police leadership and correctional administration tackled the nationwide pandemic and still managed to create a space where it can be possible to minimize the occurrence of the disease and as a result of their efforts, has been major findings. Gujarat Prison and Correctional Administration has been awarded with Skoch Gold Award for excellent work and recognized at an all India level for the COVID-19 Response. – Reproduced