Dealing specifically with custodial, treatment, parole, and executive personnel, this report on correctional personnel is one of eight volumes which comprise the full report of the National Manpower Survey of the Criminal Justice System. Chapter and section titles include the following: (1) executive summary; (2) current manpower assessment (an overview of correctional manpower, state correctional institutions for adults, local jails, juvenile corrections, probation and parole agencies); (3) the outlook for correctional employment--manpower projections to 1985 (the projection scenario, key trends affecting corrections employment, projections of corrections employment, and assessment of key correctional developments); (4) recruitment and retention of corrections employees (recent recruitment and turnover experience, projected recruitment needs, and employment and recruitment of minorities and women); (5) education for correctional occupations (assessment of the educational attainment of correctional personnel, assessment of the educational attainment of probation and parole officers, assessment of correctional treatment personnel, efforts to upgrade the educational attainment of adult and corrections officers and of probation and parole personnel, the impact of the Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP) upon the educational upgrading of personnel, and summary of the major findings and recommendations in correctional education); and (6) training for correctional occupations (standards; line personnel in adults corrections, juvenile child care workers, and probation and parole officers; and supervisory, treatment, and educational personnel.) (JH)