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Watch: Privatized Prison Unions and Justice Organizations as Nonprofits

Welcome to this week's module. And this week we're going to be changing a little bit of our rhythm in terms of looking at a couple of items that you normally wouldn't look at, perhaps in a criminal justice organization. But they may well affect you in periphery that you may not think of and they're going to be privatized prisons and the unions that go with them. And also looking at justice organizations as they relate to non-profit organizations. Let me read for you a worldview in regards to this entire course. It has been based and looking at issues of truth in ethics. And we'll be looking at that somewhat in this particular module. But I want to read you just a very brief item from, from John 831 to the Jews had believed to the Jews who had believed him. Jesus said, If you hold of my teachings, you are really my disciples, then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Keeping that in mind, not only in this module, but in the module that will follow later.

When you're dealing with the issues that you may be having as administrator, you may work for a department or you may work for an organization in your criminal justice, feel that for whatever reason, perhaps probably to save money, you may be having to let out a contract or you may have to be the person that actually supervises the owner of a privatized jail or prison. So we want to look at the issues even though we've discussed unions before. In another section, we want to look quite frankly at how a privatized prison that doesn't have the, what we say as the government rules of how a union does and does not work. We want to look at that because that could very well affect you if you're administrating this and you're trying to deal perhaps with a union issue. And the rules again, quite frankly are different, so we need to look at that. Here's something quite unusual, particularly for those of you that are involved in community-based policing or community-based government. When you think about it, a sheriff, a regional state police officer, even a local police officer, jails a number of different groups, all deal every day with non-profits and non-profit items. Course, when you think of criminal justice itself is a non-profit, but we're talking about things of what you normally we think of as charities or you're sitting on a board of a local arts council or something of that nature. If you do community service in terms of really getting involved in your community where they understand what you do, then it's a two-way street. And many times you are, your personnel will be asked to sit on boards. So it's very, very important since board sometimes I ask personnel questions and ask persons who sit on those boards to serve and personnel issues, particularly in hearings. If a non-profit has a paid employee that has done something that they need to be relieved of their duty, then that may be something called upon you. And the rules again will be different because this is not a government organization as you may be used to your internal discipline. So again, you may not have people that are involved.

I can tell several people to wear their chiefs and or directors have asked him to be a part of the community by joining two or three private boards or joining something like a rotary or a tan or something of that nature. There are many, many groups out there and I just happened to think of elks. And then again, there are Community Action boards as community education boards, all kinds of things that quite frankly you're serving for free. But the purpose of getting your people in those things is to have that inner community contact and to know each other back and forth.

There's nothing any better than a police officer answering a particular column. And when he or she gets there, they actually know the people who were asking for service met each other before they in college or the First Name. That quite frankly is what community-oriented policing government, any of that may be in regards to, because we all interact with the public sector in private when we're not working and also when we are working in regards so again, those are the two issues that we're going to look at. And I'm sure you may have people that that coach little league baseball or softball or anything such as volleyball, football, youth soccer. Those things have rules. And unfortunately, if people know that you work for chroma justice organization, they may want you sometimes to actually serve on that board or you may be the one who has to mitigate something. Again, that's not overly encouraged or under curves.

The point being is it can happen and we want to have you prepared for it. So again, it's a little bit of a different departure. It has the same type of topic, but it is something that you may or may not be involved in that we want to make sure that you're exposed to it in this particular module. And I look forward to working with you.