The Irish Prison Service Core values:
* Recognises its obligation to serve the community with full respect for the human dignity and rights of every person, both in custody and in the wider community
* Recognises that it is obliged to help every offender live as a law abiding person and that the Service can contribute to their realising their potential
* Believes in making available to each person in custody conditions and services appropriate to their well-being and personal development
* Commits itself to minimising the detrimental effects of imprisonment
* Endeavours to help prisoners, where possible and appropriate, to maintain relationships with their families
* Values the resources available to it, especially all staff working in the prison system who are the most important asset in fulfilling the Service's mission
* Commits itself to being courteous and fair in all its dealings
* Accepts that it is accountable for its actions and endeavours to demonstrate this accountability in public
The key Aims (the Mission Statement) of the Scottish Prison Service are:
Custody
Order
Care
Opportunity
These aims have not changed, indeed they are central to our new Vision for the future.
Our Mission tells us what to do, the vision is aimed at making us do it better by concentrating on key themes. There are five:
Leadership in correctional Service
A prison estate that is fit for the purpose
Highest Standards of Service
Respect for our Staff
Value for Money for the Taxpayer
The jail system faces a "serious crisis" for which the government (British) has completely failed to plan, the prisons watchdog said today.
Annette Strauch wrote...
The prison situation is a catastrophe in England from what I see in the news. The mission sevice for the Scottish prison service sounds good.
Posted by: Annette Strauch | July 26, 2007 7:50 PM