SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Day Parole, Community Integration, High School Diploma
1 Jun 2018
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CORRECTIONS IN CANADA
Correctional Service Canada
• Depends on how useful and helpful a correctional officer is
• Intake assessment
o Correctional services will find information from the courts, police, family, victims
o To have a sense of who that person is
o Too find programs best suited for them
o Plans to determine inmates progress
▪ At end of sentence, they can see how well they have achieved their plan
o Decides if individual needs minimum, medium, or high security
• Woe’s institution
o Multi level
▪ All offenders at the same place
• Min, med, max
▪ Because there are fewer female offenders
• Correctional plan
o Any treatment an individual is going to have
o Recommendations for rehabilitations
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Daily Routine
• Have to follow rules and regulations
Correctional Programs
• General
o Life skills, education, recreation, counselling
o Available to anyone
• Offence specific
o Individual offence the person has been incarcerated for
o Teaching impact of their actions
o Talking about why you are in prison in the first place
▪ Stoplift program for shoplifters; sex-offender programs
• Offender specific
o About the person
o Substance abuse, leisure time, anger management
• We want prisoners to have more positive skills coming out of prison than they came in with
Educational Programs
• More likely to find a job
• Less likely to reoffend
• Falls in provincial jurisdiction
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