NCJ Number
124836
Date Published
1986
Length
103 pages
Annotation
A 1986 seminar brought 60 Canadian corrections officials, policymakers, managers from the public and private sectors, and union representatives together to examine the potential and limitations of private enterprise in providing correctional programs in Canada.
Abstract
The discussions also aimed to increase participants understanding of current practices and programs and to explore relationships in both providing direct services to offenders and developing joint ventures to enhance inmate employment. Individual discussions focused on the experience with privatization of corrections in the United States, privatization of youth corrections in Ontario, and the politics and ethics of correctional programs operated by profit-making entities. Other presentations focused on prison industries and on the role of private, nonprofit organizations in corrections. Test of presentations, summaries of workshops, and seminar summary.