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Agency Mission

The Arizona Department of Correction recruits and recognizes a well-trained, professional work force to serve and protect our communities and its crime victims by effectively employing the field's best security practices and proven pre-release programming to prepare for the release and reintegration ex-offenders as civil, productive citizens.
 

Agency Vision

"Strengthening Public Safety in Our Communities through Excellence in Corrections"
 

Professional Principles

  • We abide by the law of this State and the country and practice the field's highest level of ethical and moral behavior at all times.
  • We perform all of our work assignments in a responsible manner because the public's trust and respect for our efforts rest with us.
  • We are always diligent in the performance of our duties because our every action always affects the safety and security of others.
  • We expect proficiency and strive for excellence in our work performance.
  • We pursue continuous professional growth and development, seek self-improvement and accept constructive criticism.
  • We are teachers and leaders.
  • We are professional in all that we say and do in the workplace.
  • We report misconduct.
  • We celebrate others successes.
  • We communicate honestly and appropriately in word and action.
  • We recognize and respect the similarities and differences in those who work with us and those who we serve.
  • We treat everyone with respect and fairness.

Agency Strategic Issues and Goals

STRATEGIC ISSUE 1:
Improving public safety now through facility and field operations by employing Corrections' best practices.
Goal 1 Agency personnel are knowledgeable and proficient in the Department's core competencies and all units and sections in ADC consistently comply in full with essential policies and procedures. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 2 The department has a viable emergency preparation plan and all staff is proficient in its applications. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 3 Interactions between and among staff and offenders are appropriate, professional. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 4 The Department has adequate capacity to appropriately assign offenders to housing in prison and on community supervision commensurate with risk and need. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 5 All offenders are accurately classified and regular reclassified to reflect risk and need. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 6 All programmable inmates are productively and appropriately involved full-time to eliminate idleness and institutional misconduct. Offender Operations 2006
Goal 7 Offenders improve the conditions of their confinement and supervisions with positive conduct and appropriate programming. Offender Operations 2006
STRATEGIC ISSUE 2:
Improve public safety later by reducing offenders' relapse, revocation and recidivism, utilizing only evidence-based strategies and services.
Goal 8 The correctional environment is imbedded with real world expectations that offenders are responsible and accountable for their decisions and behavior, and real world opportunities to improve the conditions of their confinement and community supervision over time through sustained civil and productive conduct. Program Services 2006
Goal 9 All programmable offenders acquire sufficient skill sets and realistic pre-release preparation throughout their sentence to ADC to rejoin their communities as civil and productive ex-offenders and remain crime-free and self-sustaining. Program Services 2006
Goal 10 In partnership with others in the community, all "fast-track" inmates, those who are incarcerated for less than six months, and special populations including those with co-occurring disorders and chronic mental health needs receive transition-specific planning and programming prior to their discharge from prison. Program Services 2006
Goal 11 In partnership with others in the community, the department provides comprehensive transition-specific planning and programming for every inmate serving more than six months prior to discharge from prison. Program Services 2006
STRATEGIC ISSUE 3:
Recruit, retain, and recognize excellent ADC staff that represents this flagship agency.
Goal 12 The department recruits and retains a qualified, diverse and professional correctional workforce, and recognizes its staff's contributions to the actualization of the department's vision and achievement of its mission Support Services 2006
Goal 13 The department's continuum of state-of-art-pre-service, in-service and career development training programs prepares the ADC workforce to assume and perform their duties with excellence. Support Services 2006
Goal 14 The workplace environment sustains organizational change towards excellence and the efforts of its professional workforce. Support Services 2006
STRATEGIC ISSUE 4:
Provide victim-focused and victim-friendly services to crime victims and survivors.
Goal 15 Crime victims and their families have ready access to the Department, and receive credible support services. Victim Services 2006
Goal 16 All offenders are involved in victim-focused activities that promote awareness and understanding of the impact of their criminal conduct on crime victims and make amends to crime victims for their unlawful behavior. Victim Services 2006

Code of Conduct

  • I abide by all of the laws of the United States and the State of Arizona and model the profession's highest level of ethical and moral behavior at all times.
  • I perform my work assignments in a responsible manner because the public's trust and confidence in the department rests with me.
  • I am always diligent in the performance of my duties because my every action affects the safety and security of others.
  • I am proficient and strive for excellence in my work performance.
  • I pursue continuous professional growth and development, seek self-improvement and accept constructive criticism.
  • I am a teacher and a leader.
  • I am professional in all that I say and do in the workplace.
  • I report misconduct.
  • I communicate honestly and appropriately in word and action.
  • I recognize and respect the similarities and differences in those who work with us and who we serve.
  • I treat everyone with respect and fairness.
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