Case Scenario: Proposed Education for High Risk Offenders
Rydell Correctional Facility has a public mission statement that encompasses upholding staff safety while providing meaningful opportunities for offender success. Rydell Correctional Facility houses the highest custody level of offenders, officially termed extended restrictive housing. Offenders at this custody level have killed or seriously assaulted staff or other offenders and not out of their cell more than an hour a day. The director of prisons for the state department of corrections, Mr. Calhoun, has decided to disband the current extended restrictive housing policy based on current inclinations that it is inhumane. Allowing offenders the opportunity to be out of their cell for …show more content…
They think they will not be safe teaching in the classrooms, offenders will not be safe, and the department is not spending money wisely
Instructor Guide
Audience: The case scenario and instructor guide are written for students in criminal justice classes and staff training in correctional facilities. Students will be discussing the scenario and work in groups of 4 - 6 students. Answers will be submitted in writing from each group with a short presentation identifying which of the three frameworks they identified that best fits their analysis.
Student Instructions:
Read the case scenario “Proposed Education for High-Risk Offenders” and discuss the questions to guide your analysis of the situation.
1. What are the main issues present in the case scenario?
2. Who are the stakeholders that decisions will affect?
3. What are key ethical issues in the case scenario?
4. Provide solutions and alternatives to the main issues.
Based on your answers to the questions, decide which of the three frameworks identified as consequentialist, duty or virtue regarding ethical decisions using the chart from Bonde and Firenze …show more content…
Proper department disclosure following chain of command.
4. Provide solutions and alternatives to the main issues.
Student outcome: Provide two solutions or alternatives to identified main issue
A. The offenders will be able to access and harm staff and other offender students.
Solutions/alternatives examples: contact other correctional facilities for guidance, reference and follow policies, larger classroom space, fewer offender students in class, greater staff presence, teaching via video conference, alternative restraint systems
B. The department management values appearance of offering education over providing actual classes.
Solutions/alternatives examples: identify stakeholder views on offender education, research and apply evidence-based practices in correctional education, align training with departmental mission statement, involving the state department of education
Rydell Correctional Facility has a public mission statement that encompasses upholding staff safety while providing meaningful opportunities for offender success. Rydell Correctional Facility houses the highest custody level of offenders, officially termed extended restrictive housing. Offenders at this custody level have killed or seriously assaulted staff or other offenders and not out of their cell more than an hour a day. The director of prisons for the state department of corrections, Mr. Calhoun, has decided to disband the current extended restrictive housing policy based on current inclinations that it is inhumane. Allowing offenders the opportunity to be out of their cell for …show more content…
They think they will not be safe teaching in the classrooms, offenders will not be safe, and the department is not spending money wisely
Instructor Guide
Audience: The case scenario and instructor guide are written for students in criminal justice classes and staff training in correctional facilities. Students will be discussing the scenario and work in groups of 4 - 6 students. Answers will be submitted in writing from each group with a short presentation identifying which of the three frameworks they identified that best fits their analysis.
Student Instructions:
Read the case scenario “Proposed Education for High-Risk Offenders” and discuss the questions to guide your analysis of the situation.
1. What are the main issues present in the case scenario?
2. Who are the stakeholders that decisions will affect?
3. What are key ethical issues in the case scenario?
4. Provide solutions and alternatives to the main issues.
Based on your answers to the questions, decide which of the three frameworks identified as consequentialist, duty or virtue regarding ethical decisions using the chart from Bonde and Firenze …show more content…
Proper department disclosure following chain of command.
4. Provide solutions and alternatives to the main issues.
Student outcome: Provide two solutions or alternatives to identified main issue
A. The offenders will be able to access and harm staff and other offender students.
Solutions/alternatives examples: contact other correctional facilities for guidance, reference and follow policies, larger classroom space, fewer offender students in class, greater staff presence, teaching via video conference, alternative restraint systems
B. The department management values appearance of offering education over providing actual classes.
Solutions/alternatives examples: identify stakeholder views on offender education, research and apply evidence-based practices in correctional education, align training with departmental mission statement, involving the state department of education