PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT Toward a Science of Correctional Management

Participatory management as an intervention technique to effect change in the prison environment requires a restructuring of the prison Incision-making process. Inmates must be given increased responsibility and be aUowed to participate meaningfully in decision-making. The inmate subculture is posited as being one of the major impediments to successful interventions within the prison setting; participatory management neutralizes its effects, replacing the traditional oppositional character of staff/ inmate relationships with a coalition of staff and inmates.