CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kingston Penitentiary, Penitentiary Act, Auburn System
17 Oct 2017
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Investigation into the kingston penitentiary about mismanagement, mistreatment of convicts: attempts to reform the prison. Prison architecture: traditional exterior: grandiose, drabness (grayish), depressing condition inside. Modern less visible, more integrated into surroundings. Imprisonment not used as a sanction, was holding facility: federal level: violent offences are high proportion, decrease parole grants. Provincial level: alternative incarceration probation, conditional sentence more secure facility need. Limited the ability of correction systems to design facilities that increased responsibility and freedom of movement for inmates: report creating choice produced by the task force on federally sentenced women. Major shift in correctional policy: absence of research studies, hard to determine that reform resulted significant impact, private prison for-profit, whether faster and cheaper wat for corrections systems to add capacity, reduces operating costs. Improves the quality of service provided to inmates: reduces rates of reoffending, relieves government of the responsibility to sanction offenders.
