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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
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Editors: Jacinthe Allard, Carole Dolan and Pierre Cremer
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Printed and bound in September 2000 by Tri-Graphic, Ottawa
Reflections of a Canadian Prison Warden
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The Visionary Legacy of Ron Wiebe: An Unfinished Conversation
Table of Contents
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
