Commissioners were particularly impressed Appointment of personnel for academic and

with the programs and administration of the vocational instruction;

California State Department of Corrections. = Classification system;

Many changes in the gaol system of British

Columbia were based on information obtained

from this jurisdiction.

The main components of the California system

were:

Centralized administrative control;
Classification system;

Specialized institutions and services;
Educational and vocational trades training;

Use of parole and indeterminate sentencing;
and

Training program for all inmates;

Appointment of Protestant and Roman
Catholic chaplains, for religious services and
counselling;

Forestry camp program for selected inmates;

Separate institutional program for treatment
of chronic alcoholics;

Employment of a full-time physician;
Completion of a job analysis of personnel at

Oakalla Prison Parm and a salary scale for
each category of employment;

» Staff selection and training. » Preparation of estimates for the cost of

One of the main tecommendations of the B.C sending offenders to their residence or place
Gaol Commission was a separate correctional of employment upon release;
institution with a constructive program for the » Enactment of legislattve amendments to
more reformable offender, designed and built
on the philosophy of rehabilitation. This

institution—which eventually became Haney

directly transfer prisoners from one
institution to another and for the courts to
directly sentence an offender to a new

Correctional Institution—provided a complete institution;

training program consisting of physical, » Proposal that offenders should not be

vocational and academic components. committed to the Nelson, Kamloops ot

Other recommendations included: Prince George gaols for more than three

. . months and that no prisoners under 21 be
» Expansion of probation and parole; ae
sentenced to these facilities;

» Appointment of a director of corrections, Lo.
. ee » Employment of a psychiatrist; and
responsible for administration of all

Relocation, enlargement and renovation of
facilities.

correctional institutions including juvenile "
facilities, probation service, parole service and
correctional programs; Most of these recommendations were

» Appointment of prominent citizens to an implemented.

advisory committee reporting to the director Commissioners were highly influential in

of corrections; implementing the recommendations of their
» In-service staff training system; report. Two commissioners held senior

« Appointment of a deputy warden of training administrative positions in the British Columbia

at Oakalla Prison Farm;

Attorney General's department at the time of

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