One of the most serious problems is the lax supervision of correctional officers and too little hands-on management. An underlying problem is the less than ideal recruitment, training, assignment, and disciplinary practices for correctional officers. Low recruitment criteria and incentives result in selection of employees who are young, undereducated, and potentially susceptible to coercion. In addition, there are major problems in the uniformity, interpretation, and application of security rules that lead to spotty to nonexistent enforcement. Recommendations for improvement cover correctional officer selection and training, security planning, rule enforcement, and security procedures (including searches, emergency response teams, and telephone and mail use). A master roster deployment system is appended. 110 footnotes and references.