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| Prison system adopts new policy to improve efficiency |
| By Northeast Philadelphia News Gleaner |
| Published: 01/19/2004 |
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One can imagine the amount of team work it took for the Philadelphia Eagles to beat the Green Bay Packers last Sunday. The Eagles worked together. Offense, defense, and special teams came together. The Philadelphia Prisons system wants to employ a similar strategy, and the effort has a new name: CORESTAR . Acting Prisons Commissioner Leon A. King II introduced the concept to his staff last week in the Detention Center gymnasium. CORESTAR--Correctional Outcomes Reentry Ethics Security Treatment and Accountability Review--will make the prison system run safely, more efficiently, and at less cost, King believes. "We see the need to continue updating our system's approach to problem solving," said public information officer Bob Eskind. CORESTAR was developed after a similar system in New York, as well as the highly touted COMSTAT process in the Philadelphia Police Department. In New York City, the TEAMS effort is credited with reducing inmate violence by 95 percent, cutting serious use of force crimes by 77 percent. Overtime dropped 45 percent. CORESTAR is an organizing program that will track potential problems and solve them before the situation deteriorates. The prisons system here is looking into software to automate data. This would make information more available and reduce the amount of time spent analyzing data. CORESTAR meetings will be held for two hours on the final Wednesday of every month. The meetings will rotate facility locations. Meeting minutes will be taken and analyzed for the next meeting, Eskind said. CORESTAR meetings are designed to improve teamwork , and increase morale and professionalism. To ensure productivity, presentations with resolution results may be required at the next meeting. An Employee of the Month will be announced at every CORESTAR meeting. An Institution of the Year will also be honored. Both awards will come with rewards. With teamwork and incentives, morale will be improved. |
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