Turnkey to case manager, the professionalisation of the correctional officer, Headingley Correctional Institution, Manitoba, 1930-1996

• Main Author: Stansfield, Christian J. R.
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2515

Correctional personnel === History === Correctional personnel === Training of === History === Services correctionnels === Personnel === Histoire === Services correctionnels === Personnel === Formation === Histoire === Gaol, prison, the penitentiary, the hoosegow, the nick and the correctional institution all refer to the place where losers in the criminal law, who are not allowed to remain at large in society, are confined. For the most part close scrutiny of correctional operations has historically been of a reactive and remedial nature, to find out why a riot, a hostage taking or some other serious event happened. The justification is to try to ensure that it does not happen again, which it often does, or simply to investigate such an event as a matter of academic scholarship. In these studies, the correctional officer, the turnkey, the screw, the bull or the guard has been largely overlooked until recently. Yet it is these individuals, more than any other, who have the most significant impact, both positive and negative, on the incarcerated. They remain one of the most understudied groups within the entire criminal justice system.