Correctional staff are instrumental in ensuring the success of any correctional institution; therefore, investigating how the work environment impacts correctional workers is essential. To determine the effects of supervisory consideration, supervisory structure, job variety, and perceptions of training on correctional staff job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, data from a survey of staff at a Midwestern private correctional facility were examined. The Ordinary Least Squares regression results indicate that each of the work environment factors had a significant impact on one or more of the three outcomes. Specifically, supervisory consideration and perceptions of training decreased job stress. Supervisory consideration, job variety, and perceptions of training had positive effects on job satisfaction. Finally, supervisory consideration, supervisory structure, job variety, and perceptions of training had positive relationships with organizational commitment.

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This article addresses what justice is and how it is perceived by members in the Black community. The Black community is composed of people of all races and ethnicities who live and/or work in predominantly Black areas. Interviews were conducted and analyzed focusing on this question: “What is justice?” The Black community does not have a monolithic view of the meaning of justice, nor of the process. We interpreted participants’ definition of justice in terms of Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, or simply cultural sensitivity (“enculturated”). The goal of this article is to lay the framework and groundwork for dialogue among and to provide recommendations to scholars and professionals in the allied fields of education, legal studies, and criminal justice.

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