Emergency Planning - Emergency preparedness plans

Emergency Planning: Emergency preparedness plans require utilization of all available resources to ensure an effective and practical system of response that can also be implemented in concert with outside resources.

1. Have prisons and jails been affected by domestic and international terrorism?

2. What are the differences in emergency planning in today’s world compared to the planning done prior to September 11, 2001?

3. What role do Homeland Security and the National Response Plan play in local planning?

Political Involvement: Public administrators must be responsive to those who pay the bills and operate according to one of the important principles on which the United States was established—the rule of law.

4. Why should the public and legislators be interested in prison operations?

5. In what ways can corrections administrators develop a positive relationship with legislators?