The
mission is to rehabilitate legally remanded and convicted persons back into the
society by exposing them to Ethical Behaviour, and Moral Leadership. Requiring modern secure prison facilities to
educate and re-educate such persons, to build character, Decency and be a
productive member of society. On or off duty, prison officers are the effective
role models of every prisoner transformation and the level of security expected
in a free society. The trained prison officer must therefore be up to the task
of constantly being watched and observed, continuously teaching speech and
mannerisms, and projecting the state of A Happy Society.
Trained
Prison Officers are recruited from among the general public, where
physical and mental health are key elements of concern, and from other military
branches to fill advance level positions. These new recruits and other new
advance level officers are background traced and polygraphed as part of an
intense recruitment process, to weed out undesirables. Further, oriented to the
general operations and culture of the prison system, the direct responsibility
of their post and trained to see prisoners as clients. Clients having done
wrong against the laws of the nation, who are assigned into the prison system
to be rehabilitated back into society.
Prison
Officers’ Security must be taken very seriously, on or off
duty, as they are endangered by and constantly exposed to the worst of society.
Off duty, such officers should be entitled to and must receive state assisted,
family secure housing as part of their normal employment terms and conditions.
Such prison officers must be paid well with periodic cost of living adjustments
and avenues available for promotions, to limit attempts and acceptance of
bribery. Needing very strong morals and sustainable mental health, individual
and group programs must be in place for officers to build and maintain their
strong character.
Secure
Prison Facilities are technically designed, constructed and
operated, traditionally, to be secure and limit escapes, rather than to prepare
inmates for re-entry to society. The technical or architectural design of
modern prisons, now, more resemble boarding schools, with lecture halls,
classrooms, and lodgings, catering for more learning than escapes. Constructed
as a tertiary education campus, with a powerful and versatile intranet library
system, much more teaching and learning aids than strong security bars.
Operated on a shift-based, day and night, instruction system, with long school
hours, motivational reward grading and staffed with more highly trained
teachers than with security guards.
Rehabilitation
back into Society can entail specialized programs to
diagnose and re-educate; individuals or groups, to integrate productive and
law-abiding members of society. Harden criminals and repeat offenders may well
be diagnosed to be beyond rehabilitation and notwithstanding further attempts,
must be kept out of society. While, many trusted elderly prisoners or
ex-prisoners can be employed to supervise and guide underage juvenile
assailants, reducing the number of re-offenders coming back into the system. It
is these types of programs which can help via Mentoring and Parenting young
adults, persons who are the product of a bad environment and first time
offenders to change their ways.
Rationale
T.A.J &
Associates Company Limited uses this occasion
to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically and by the
mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment opportunity, not
to invoke any social action.
