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Provincial Corrections
In this chapter, the student should be able to:
- Describe the key issues shaping probation in Canada
- Identify the best practices in community supervision
- Describe the evolution of provincial and territorial correctional systems
- Explain how the characteristics of inmates influences their conduct while incarcerated
- Describe the steps officials have taken to increase correctional safety and security
- Differentiate between provincial/territorial and federal corrections.
- Outline the difficulties with keeping inmates constructively occupied with meaningful programs.
- Describe how the characteristics of inmates in provincial/territorial institutions have changed in recent decades.
- State some of the challenges of institutional safety and security through facility design.
- State some of the challenges of effective offender needs/risks identification and offender classification.
- Describe the primary roles and responsibilities of a correctional officer