Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the social control and management philosophy in juvenile correctional facilities in Taiwan. By analyzing the written rules in juvenile correction facilities and attitudes of correctional officers, the author attempted to, on the one hand, analyze the conception of orders for juveniles and staff who both spent most of their time in custody. On the other hand, the paper intended to investigate what and how the management patterns and philosophy for correctional officers were formed. As results, the study found that norms, rules and punishment systems were equally and importantly committed by both the juveniles and correctional officers. In addition, factors such as personality, family, education, occupational background of the correctional officers, as well as organization character significantly affected the way of interaction, the conduct of social control, the perception of the institutional goals. More interestingly, the present study discovered a dialectically conflicting character on those surveyed correctional officers in terms of the ideal social control they perceived for correctional facilities and the real management actions they practiced everyday in custody. A throughout discussion of these findings was further discoursed.