A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CORRECTIONS ADMINISTRATION AND FISCAL MANAGEMENT

The interrelationship between corrections administration and fiscal management is steeped in both government as well as public administration. In point of fact, federal programs are identified by national needs as well as functional classification. In accordance with the federal government’s standards, federal authorities have identified budget authority, outlays, and related measures of federal spending, focusing on the end purposes served by the spending. The Department of Corrections is one agency which would lie within this context. Federal activities, which fall within the Administration of Justice, include Law Enforcement, Litigative and Judicial activities, the operation of prisons to house federal inmates, and criminal justice assistance to state and local governments. Outlays for such activities are in the billions of dollars, and more specific figures shall be included subsequently. More than one half of outlays for programs within the function of Federal Law Enforcement activities may be carried out by criminal investigations through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (...