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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of risk management in corrections. The value of planning is explored through an analysis of the Morey Unit Hostage Crisis. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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entrants are common might have a prevention and mitigation strategy associated with the risks of being undersold or beaten to a niche by some new competitor. There are some industries,
however, where a lack of effective mitigation planning doesnt just mean a loss of profits, but the very difference between life and death. For example, the corrections industry has a
business model which entails the attempted management of thousands or millions of volatile and unpredictable elements: the prisoners themselves, many of whom have been incarcerated for violent crimes. This paper
will explore the importance of prevention and mitigation planning by analyzing the case study of the infamous Morey Unit hostage situation that unfolded in the Arizona Department of Corrections. This
paragraph helps the student present an overview of the hostage situation. The situation in question began routinely enough, which who prisoners, Coy (serving a life sentence) and Wassenaar (serving a
long-term sentence) hatched a plan to escape from their incarceration (National Institute of Corrections, 2010). On January 18, 2004, the plan was initiated but due to certain complications, it rapidly
devolved from a smooth escape to a problematic situation in which the prisoners "subdued the two correctional officers on duty and seized the units tower", resulting in a hostage crisis
that would not be resolved for some 15 days (National Institute of Correction, 2010). Such a situation represents an obvious failure on the part of the institution to effectively plan
for preventing and mitigating events of that type. Having established the severity of the situation, one might fairly ask what the organization in question could have done to avoid
the situation, or had its severity mitigated by pre-emptive strategies. To make such recommendations, one should look at the issues which were most critical in the escalation of the hostage
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