In this session, participants will learn that while purposeful building design can support staff safety and enhance treatment efficacy, design alone is not enough to effect meaningful and sustained change. Hear from a former correctional administrator on why selecting the right design and project team, and the need for early participatory planning with key correctional stakeholders, is critical when designing, retrofitting and/or building correctional facilities. Without these key elements, significant resources will be spent on a beautiful building that does not deliver promised results.
Drawing on real-life examples, participants attending this session will learn (1) what progressive correctional facility design means, (2) why infrastructure alone is not enough to create physical and social correctional environments that safely enhance the humanity and dignity of incarcerated people and the staff that care for them, and (3) how to work towards ensuring that when built, the facility meets targeted operational outcomes.
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Andrea Monteiro
Founder and Principal Consultant, Ethical Correctional Consulting Inc., Canada
Andrea Monteiro is the founder of Ethical Correctional Consulting Inc., a social enterprise providing solution-focussed advice on safe and humane, criminal, health, and social justice policy and operations. She is also the current President of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association. Prior to establishing ECC, Ms. Monteiro held public service positions across Canada including Director of Corrections, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Senior Policy Advisor. Ms. Monteiro has worked with national and international correctional agencies and community-based organizations supporting justice-involved individuals for over 23 years. She has a Sociology degree, a Master of Arts in Criminology, and was a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Ms. Monteiro has appeared on national radio and television to discuss correctional reform and has co-authored and published several high-profile public reports and journal articles relating to the provision of correctional services in Canada.
