Corrections in Canada: An Interactive Timeline

Review - Custodial Procedures

Transcript

Officer: Number one Sir.

Education Officer: Morning Martin. My name's Parker. I'm an education officer here at...

Narrator: At the regional reception centre, all prisoners are examined by psychologists, educators, professional guidance officers and chaplains. Each expert considers a prisoner's problem on the view point of his own special field. They work as a team. And every interview brings to light a new piece of information, which helps towards an understanding of a man's problems, his special needs and personality.

Prisoner: My old man died. Things was never the same again. Got poor all of a sudden.

Chaplain: And how did you get along with your father?

Prisoner: My father? Huh! Great guy. Always joking. He loved me. He loved me.