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Correctional Service of Canada

Reflections of a Canadian Prison Warden

The Visionary Legacy of Ron Wiebe: An Unfinished Conversation

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Table of Contents


Foreword

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1
Three Eras in Recent Canadian Corrections
The innovation era: 1966-1974
Policy by inquiry: 1975-1988
The current era of professionalization: 1988-today
CHAPTER 2
Becoming a Prison Warden
Helping to create the Correctional Service of Canada
Career opportunities: entrepreneur, investigator and a code of conduct
Research and early automation
Setting up a reception assessment process
CHAPTER 3
Trends in Corrections
Typewriters and the white-collar worker
The shift from authority to power
Managing competing interests
From tactics to strategy
From process to productivity
From stability to change
Corporate culture
Re-engineering
New views of corrections: the living unit model
The unit management model
The postmodern organization
CHAPTER 4
Security Technology
Contraband control and drugs
Security technology and substance abuse programs
Systems automation
Analysis, common sense and intuition
CHAPTER 5
Restorative Justice
The Betty Osborne case
Elbow Lake Institution as an Aboriginal-based facility
Restorative justice and public understanding
CHAPTER 6
Minimum Security and Ferndale Institution
The appearance of comfort
The politics of escape
New value systems
Experiences at Ferndale Institution
CHAPTER 7
Three Prisons Viruses: Disrespect, Idleness and Detachment
Disrespect
Idleness
Detachment
CHAPTER 8
The Strengths of Canadian Corrections
The corrections agenda in the United States
The Canadian crossroads
International comparisons
Canadian programming and research
CHAPTER 9
Last Words: Do the Right Thing
Postface

Published by the Correctional Service of Canada — 2000

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Main entry under title :

Reflections of a Canadian prison warden - the visionary
legacy of Ron Wiebe : an unfinished conversation

Issued also in French under title : Réflexions d'un directeur
de pénitencier du Canada - l'héritage visionnaire de Ron Wiebe.
ISBN 0-662-29373-8
Cat. no. JS82-92/2000E

1.Prison wardens — Canada.
2.Correctional personnel — Canada.
3.Correctional institutions — Canada.
4.Corrections — Canada.
I.Correctional Service Canada.

HV9505.R34 2000   365'.971   C00-980405-6

©   Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2000

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