ABSTRACT
The prison population in the United States changed in an unprecedented manner in the 2000s and 2010s. These changes include a growing aging population and fluctuation in incarceration rates (e.g., declines or stabilization in some states). In this chapter, we examine how these changes influence prisons management and subsequently adjustment to prison. We begin by providing an overview of perspectives that identify the importance of the prison environment and organizational strategies to understand the adjustment process. We then discuss how recent prison population trends may elicit or require changes in administrative styles that have not been examined by research over the past several decades. We conclude the chapter by recommending new avenues for research and discussing strategies that might reduce maladjustment in a time of unprecedented change across prisons.
