Only holding a programs position was significantly associated with views on general deterrence. To develop this, correctional-staff members who hold positions in programs are typically likely to assign 1.21 lower impor- tance scores for general deterrence as an important penal goal, on average, than correctional-security staff. Here again the idea that the more helping staff members in correctional settings are less supportive for the more hard- lined correctional objectives is seen. When making further comparisons across all types of jobs, results indicate that the models are minimally dif- ferent, yet expected, given the previous results. In the models comparing programs, support, and security with administrators and administrators, secu- rity, and programs with support, none of the variables are significant. In the model comparing administrators, security, and support with programs, only security is a significant predictor of one's views on general deterrence as an important correctional strategy. Security staff are more supportive of general deterrence as an important correctional goal than those staff who serve in program positions. Conclusion and Discussion This research has provided evidence of the importance of considering the beliefs and values of all correctional-staff members when considering how institutions are managed and how staff may be expected to welcome, accept, or resist administrative changes concerning policies and practices inside of prisons. It is important to consider that staff members can be expected to show variations in their degree of expressed support and value for policies and practices that emphasize retributive, rehabilitative, incapacitative, or deterrent perspectives. As this study has shown, administrators, security staff, program staff, and support-services personnel have reported variations in their expressed degree of support and endorsement for each ideological perspective and for what each occupational group identify as their main purpose/goal of a prison. The bivariate analyses revealed that, for the entire sample, the ideological perspective that was seen as the most important for the operation of prisons is rehabilitation. When looking at what correctional staff saw as more or less important for the operations of their institutions by type of job, experience, and demographics, there were some important differences. First, there appeared to be important influences by the type of job that an individual held regarding their views of what was more or less important in corrections. Administrators and programming staff saw rehabilitation as the most important ideal for