Where Are the Keepers?: Incentive Program That Addressed the Highest Absentee Rate of Any Municipal Agency in New York

by D.P. Lyons

Overview

This is a management project (change project) in response to local New York City newspapers who reported in 1987, that the New York City Department of Correction had the highest absentee rate of any municipal agency. This resulted in the highest overtime budget. The change project assisted in saving New York City millions of dollars annually in the reduction of staff overtime, increasing staff morale and promoting unity and team work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781456763145
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	06/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	108
File size:	701 KB

About the Author

D. P. Lyons started his careeerr as a New York City Police Officer (undercover operations) and transferred to the N.Y.C. Dept. of Correction for thirty-one years of crimiminal justice experience supervising and managing prisons and jails. He retired from the New York City Department of Correcton in 1993 and was asked to come out of retirement that same year to manage two detention facilities in North Carolina. Lyons retired again in year 2009 as warden of the Eddy County Detention Centers in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Lyons also served as warden of the U.S. Department of Justice, Wackenhut Corrections Immigration Detention Center, in Aurora, Colorado. Lyons has undergradaute degrees in Business Administration and Correction Administration from the City University of New York. He has a Masters Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University, Lincoln, Pennsylvania. Lyons is best known for proactive management strategies that prevent offender litigation at the expense of the detention facility and county/city governments. Additionally, he has a professional reputation of reversing an increasing trend in escalating financial expenditures for detention centers saving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, decreasing facility budgets while increasing quantity and quality of services by utilizing competitive markets, acquiring national accreditation, and applying good sound management philosophy and techniques. He also served as consultant to the Minister of Justice, Antilles the Netherlands. In year 2000, Lyons named in "Who's Who Among Colorado's Outstanding Leaders". Lyons formely serveed as Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice (instructing in criminal investigations and management of correctional institutions) at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Lyons is also published in the Keeper's Voice, International Association of Correctional Officers on management issues and Correction Today, the magazine of the American Correctional Association regarding proactive training in administrative investigations. Formerly, Lyons served as guest lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and New Mexico State University at Carlsbad, New Mexico. Lyons was encouraged to write this training manual based upon a needs assessment supported by a review of current literature on internal investigation procedures, techniques and written reports that reveal correctional facility internal investigations are superficial, inadequate, fundamentlly biased and written to cover staff. This manual is designed as a practical tool for correctional supervisors and managers in conducting and critiquing investigations as the process of legal procedures and evidence in meeting mandates of state and federal courts.