The first issue addressed pertained to determinants of correctional officers' attitudes, with attention to the influence of demographic characteristics (age, race, sex, and education level). The second focus of the literature review was job stress for correctional officers. Among the issues considered are the relationship between officers' stress and organizational characteristics, work-home conflict, and the relationship between stress and support resources. A third area examined in the literature involved surveys of correctional administrators regarding attitudes toward prison amenities, the impact of the warden's race on the management of prisons, and racial integration in prison facilities. Conditions for correctional officers in jails was another area examined in the literature review. One section of the literature review summarized other topical areas about which correctional employees had been queried, such as officers' attitudes toward job satisfaction and/or enrichment, treatment programs, AIDS in prison, and accreditation. This section concludes with a mention of several studies conducted within individual State departments of corrections that could provide correctional administrators with guidelines for conducting similar studies in their own States. The literature review concludes with an overview of studies of probation and parole employees. 68 references