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A 7 page companion to a 22-slide PowerPoint presentation and separate Appendix file containing data tables and prison images. The project examines the practice of searching inmates, cells and visitors for the purpose of controlling drugs and other items of contraband. People have been quite creative in their efforts to get drugs inside prisons; a Canadian prison warden states that intercepting drugs and items that can be made into weapons is the greatest security problem in the Canadian prison system. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KScrimSearchCa.rtf
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Televisions Dr. Phil McGraw has become famous for his homilies, one of which is: "No matter how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides."
Dr. McGraws meaning, of course, is that of the old adage, "there are two sides to every story." The matter of searches in Canadian prisons certainly qualifies for
this "two sides" characterization. The Correctional Service of Canada states that there is a "sense among some Canadians that corrections in Canada is crumbling under a new morality" (Report
of the Task Force on Security, 2002). That new morality is turning away from the traditional view of prison as a place of punishment and increasingly is turning toward
the view of prison as the residence of last resort for those who have not done well with living in Canadas open society.
In Canada as in every other developed nation seeking the answer optimal for all involved, the pendulum swings too far in one direction, only to then swing too far in
the opposite direction. The pendulums arc narrows with every pass, however, as it seeks equilibrium. Prisons Major Security Problem Canadian Prison Warden
Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drugs." Wiebe reports that most of Canadas offenders (80
percent) have come into prison with substance abuse as a factor, and many of them have no intention of giving up their addictions merely because they are imprisoned. Wiebe
(2000) states, "For us to be effective in our work, our priority must be to manage their addiction and the introduction of drugs into institutions, which is a historical and
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