Implementing The Life Line Concept: Report Of The Task Force On Long Term Offenders

Implementing The Life Line Concept: Report Of The Task Force On Long Term Offenders February, 1998

Table of Contents

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Summary of Recommendations
• INTRODUCTION
• TERMS OF REFERENCE AND APPROACH
• PROFILE OF LONG TERM OFFENDERS
  • Current Offender Population
  • Offender Intake Assessment Information
  • 1995 Inmate Survey
  • Conclusions
• LIFE LINE SERVICES
  • Principles
  • Link to Correctional Service of Canada Mission
  • Link to National Parole Board Mission
  • Link to Life Line National Resource Group Mission
  • Services Currently Available
  • Expansion Of Life Line Services
  • Standards And Guidelines
  • Resources for Implementation
• MEANINGFUL SENTENCE PLANNING FOR LIFERS AND LONG TERM OFFENDERS
  • Time-Framed Sentence Planning
  • Role of Lifers and Long Term Offenders
• RESEARCH ON SUCCESSFUL REINTEGRATION OF LIFERS AND LONG TERM OFFENDERS
• PUBLIC EDUCATION STRATEGY
• OTHER MATTERS
  • Moving the Life Line Concept Forward
  • Immediate Next Step
• APPENDIX A - MODEL SCOPE OF WORK AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR IN-REACH WORKERS
• APPENDIX B - IN-REACH WORKER ORIENTATION AND TRAINING
• APPENDIX C - STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
• APPENDIX D - TASK FORCE TERMS OF REFERENCE
• APPENDIX E - PROFILE OF LONG TERM OFFENDERS

TASK FORCE

Ken Peterson, Warden, Mission Institution (Pacific Region), Correctional Service of Canada

Linda McLaren, Director, Program Development and Implementation, Correctional Service of Canada,

Jim Murphy, Project Manager, Community Corrections, Correctional Service of Canada

Simonne Ferguson, Regional Director (Ontario Region), National Parole Board

René Durocher, In-Reach Worker, Stony Mountain Institution

Yvon Lacombe, Project Manager, Regional Headquarters, (Quebec Region), Correctional Service of Canada

Lou Drouillard, Community Representative, Windsor

Steering Committee

Ole Ingstrup, Commissioner, Correctional Service of Canada

Lucie McClung, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Correctional Service of Canada

Brendan Reynolds, Deputy Commissioner, Ontario Region, Correctional Service of Canada

Willie Gibbs, Chairman, National Parole Board

Edward Graham, Executive Director, St. Leonard's House, Windsor

John Braithwaite, Life Line National Resource Group

Wilton Goodstriker, Correctional Service of Canada Aboriginal Advisory Committee

Nancy Stableforth, Deputy Commissioner for Women, Correctional Service of Canada

Our thanks to Nadine Parker, Suzanne St-Jacques, Robert Simms, Francine Lortie, Martin Devenport, Sandi Miller, Tina Hattem, Kathy Louis, Esther McMullen, Dale Gavel, Don Cunningham, Ron Brooks, Norm Bourget, Moe Parsons, Russ Elliott, Brian Gough, Glenn Flett, Pegasus Lifers Organization (Stony Mountain Institution), Laura Degenhardt, Gaetan Lalande, Trudy Harris, Terrie Kaszonyi, Suzanne St-Georges-Trépanier, Christine Cloutier for their help in carrying out the work of the Task Force.

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