Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were introduced to the Canadian Federal Penitentiary System in November of 2019. The legislation that covers these units included a number of new standards including minimum requirements for time out of cell and meaningful interaction. During the pandemic, it became important to maintain oversight of these new elements and help sites to improve performance while at the same time working through all the issues and restrictions the pandemic presented. Thus, a series of real-time operational reports were developed to assist sites using a data visualization tool (PowerBI).
These reports focused on offers of activities, actual time spent on activities, and the type of activities that were being offered in SIUs with the objective of showing whether or not SIUs were within the standards indicated in the legislation. This presentation will show these reports, discuss their development and use throughout the pandemic, and illustrate how using these types of reports can assist with achieving legislative compliance.
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Dr. Leslie-Anne Keown
Senior Research Manager, Correctional Service Canada
Dr. Leslie Anne Keown is as a Senior Research Manager in the Research Branch of Correctional Service Canada where she facilitates, advises, and conducts research concerning Federal Canadian Corrections. Her recent publications focus on risk assessment, overdoses in custody, traumatic brain injury and incarceration, and the use of mixed methods in research. Previously, Dr. Keown worked with Statistics Canada as an analyst/editor in the former flagship publication Canadian Social Trends as well as managing a Research data Centre. She is also an Adjunct Research Professor in Sociology at Carleton University and an Adjunct Graduate Professor in Justice Studies at the University of Regina.
