Grade 11 Criminal Law Unit: Designing
the Ideal Prison
Due:_____________
Group
Members:____________________
In
the criminal law unit, we are examining the questions:
How does the criminal
justice system really work?
How well does it
serve and protect Canadians?
Are we successfully
rehabilitating our offenders so that they become productive members of society?
One
of the pressing issues in the criminal justice system in Canada right now is prison reform, so we are going to
address it here.
This table is the
‘New Vision’ for Correctional Services Canada.
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Transformation of CSC: A New Vision
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1. Stronger focus on how all our efforts contribute
to public safety (our primary goal)
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2. Consistency in the key fundamentals of delivering
correctional services in a national organization
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3. Higher level of integration in various aspects of
our work:
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Particularly between the institutions and the community
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4. The parameters of professional judgment and
exercising of creativity will be strengthened and clearly enunciated
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5. Issues of accountability will be clearer for
everyone involved in delivering correctional services in a national
organization
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Assignment Criteria:
- You are required
to investigate 2-3 foreign prison systems, in addition to the
characteristics of the current Canadian penal system.
- Utilising the
media and the Internet, you want to note information on living conditions,
statistics (recidivism rates, deaths in prisons etc.), educational and
rehabilitation programs offered etc in these foreign prison systems. This research will help to
provide the context for designing an ideal Canadian prison. You
will use the both the positive
and negative
aspects of these systems to help in designing ‘the ideal prison’. You
should briefly touch upon this information at some point during your
presentation- ie. how your knowledge of these prison systems influenced
your decisions with regards to creating your prison. We will watch a few
documentaries in class.
Some
helpful websites to visit: John Howard Society www.johnhoward.on.ca, Amnesty
International www.amnesty.org, as well as
Correctional Service Canada www.csc-scc.gc.ca
and the CBC: www.cbc.ca/news of course!
- You will work in
a group of 3-4 students to complete this task. Each team will be
responsible for preparing and presenting a proposal for an ideal prison. The proposal must
include the architectural
layout (cells, dining facilities, recreation areas, surveillance
equipment, guards and staff etc) as
well as a detailed description of the programs offered (health, training,
counselling, rehabilitation etc.) and the philosophy and mission statement of your correctional
facility. As a group, you can
decide whether your prison will be a minimum, medium, or maximum security
facility and whether it will house female or male inmates.
- In your group you need to answer the
following questions:
- How will our prison be different? Why? How will our prison help to
deliver the 4 main purposes of sentencing better than our current system?
What measures do we have
in place to measure success? How do we know if our program choices are addressing
prisoner needs? How
are we incorporating CSC’s new vision?(Chapter 11)
- It is important
for your team to ensure that both your prison’s programs and architecture
receive attention.
7.For
the presentation portion of this assignment, your group will act as independent
consultants from various sectors of law enforcement that have been asked to
submit your proposal to Correctional Services Canada in the hopes of winning
the bid to reform the Canadian penal system. We will determine a class winner!
You essentially need to ‘sell’ your idea to the class (CSC). You may want to
consider having a logo for your prison and slogan. Creativity is an asset in
this assignment. This will be done in a CAROSEL setting.
8.We
should leave the presentation understanding what a day in the life of a
prisoner would be in your facility. Therefore, you should have a typical daily
schedule/list of responsibilities for an inmate laid out for us.
9.All
ideas for prison programs should be supported by research.
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