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Every building, including carceral environments, exists within a larger context that includes influences from history, culture, environment and a community vision of purpose. During the last several years, and more specifically in the last 24 months, a national re-examination of the purpose and value of incarceration has come under close scrutiny by an expanding community of citizens, advocates and professionals that includes those who plan, design and operate prisons. While some within this community advocate the abolition of all forms of incarceration and the replacement with less structural sanctions, if achievable at all, this ultimate aim will require decades to replace the existing inertia. In the US National Capital, the […]
(2.45 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Stephen A. Carter & Stanley I. Hallet
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The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) has re-designed our prison environment in a bid to support rehabilitation, reintegration, and long-term desistance. Guided by best practices in the correctional literature, SPS developed what we refer to as the Transformational Environment (TE). The introduction of the TE signals a move beyond focusing on rehabilitation programs, to creating a holistic rehabilitative correctional environment. This paper seeks to illustrate the design and implementation of the TE in SPS, which is grounded in the five Ps – Purpose, People, Processes, Programs, and Place. With these five Ps, this paper provides practitioners with some practical ideas on creating a rehabilitative environment, both in custody and in the […]
(1.96 MB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Alicia J. H. Tan & Shana S. Sim
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This paper sets out a vision for the future of corrections in the wake of the global pandemic. Its two key elements are the reduction in the use of imprisonment through the creation of a better balance between community based and custodial measures; and the development of a diversity of institutions more able to address the range of needs experienced by people in prison and to offer meaningful opportunities for desistance from crime. It focusses on the role that corrections staff can play in bringing about and implementing such a vision, arguing that in the poorest countries more fundamental questions need to be asked about whether the development of prisons […]
(645.91 KB) | 1. June 2021 | Author: Rob Allen
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This paper reviews countering violent extremism literature to explore: (a) the prevalence of RWE in Australian correctional systems, (b) the risks RWE could pose to corrective services, and (c) the best practices in the management and rehabilitation of right-wing extremists.
(983.6 KB) | 31. May 2021 | Author: Corrective Services Queensland
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The theme for this Edition of Advancing Corrections asked researchers and practitioners to Envision Corrections in 2030. Most of the contributors were forward looking in a positive way, presenting their vision of what corrections could and should aspire to, not as pie-in-the-sky optimism, but as evidence-informed reflection about where we should be going and how we might get there. A few contributors outlined some possible negative futures for corrections, with some legitimate analysis of the kinds of mis-directions we can take if we don’t remain vigilant. Readers of this Edition of Advancing Corrections will have their own imagined futures for our field, but the papers in the Edition will hopefully […]
(5 MB) | 27. May 2021 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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The 2021 Winter Edition of ICPA’s newsletter Beyond the Wall is now available. In this issue: B-competent: International Training Needs Assessment Report of Civilian Prison Staff (Europe); An Investment in Staff Is an Investment in Our Mission (Canada); Looking Back to Move Forward: Improving Correctional Staff Training (USA); Core Correctional Skills. From Then Until Now (Europe).
(n/a) | 23. February 2021 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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The global COVID pandemic has continued to permeate our lives in significant ways. It has created a sudden and unprecedented level of social, economic and personal upheaval. It has also laid bare some of the most entrenched structural inequalities in our communities where the most vulnerable and disadvantaged have been the most affected. The COVID virus has made most of us much more acutely aware of the notion of ‘risk’, and the complicated interplay of factors that can go into calibrating risk, how much of it we wish to take, and when, where and why. The COVID virus has presented some particular and serious risks for corrections, but RISK more […]
(2.89 MB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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(59.55 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Frank J. Porporino, Ph.D. Chair ICPA R&D Network & Editor, Advancing Corrections
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Corrections has a difficult time standing still. A new challenge always seems to be around the corner. The recent COVID pandemic is good example of a disruption that has caught corrections by surprise. But more routinely, correctional services around the world often have to respond quickly to changing circumstances, new legislation, fiscal restraint, tragic incidents and a steady stream of public or political pressure to change course, alter policy or implement new practice. Corrections is unfortunately too often pushed towards change rather than allowed to be farsighted and evidence-driven in planning for its own change. For this Edition of Advancing Corrections, we want to ask contributors to reflect on what […]
(139.11 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Frank J. Porporino, Ph.D. Chair ICPA R&D Network & Editor, Advancing Corrections
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ARTICLE 11: DOG TRAINING PROGRAMS: A STRENGTH-BASED APPROACH TO CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT Kimberly Houser & Gennifer Furst Traditionally, programming in carceral facilities is focused on targeting criminogenic risk through a deficit perspective – fix what is lacking or missing and you reduce recidivism. Although still focusing on criminogenic risk, carceral dog training programs (DTPs), in contrast, respond to these risks guided by a strengths-based approach. The programs encourage individuals to develop the values and skills needed to effectively obtain universal human needs such as a sense of purpose and significance, love and connection. The programs are holistic and provide positive and healing experiences that target multiple criminogenic risks while also providing […]
(106.79 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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