Dan Pacholke: How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives
丹.帕丘克: 監獄如何幫助受刑人擁有富有意義的生活
Dan Pacholke aims to keep the Washington State Department of Corrections on the front edge of innovation by rethinking the design of prisons, the training of officers and the education opportunities made available to inmates. Full bio
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the bucket for failed social policy.
失敗社會政策收拾爛攤子的地方。
會是什麼人,或他們會待多久。
nothing else has worked,
所以我們非收不可。
Department of Corrections.
in corrections, over 30 years.
超過三十年了,
going to end up in prison,
看到的不太一樣。
I started as an officer there.
roiling from the parking lot,
囚犯焦躁的聲音,
再把他們關起來,
IMU(Intensive Management Unit),
were most violent or disruptive
contact and they deteriorate.
of the state's deep-end prisons
州內的重犯監獄,
or disruptive inmates are housed.
都關在這裡。
experienced correctional workers
經驗豐富的監獄員工,
at a time to the state training academy.
we tried a new type of design.
嘗試用新型設計。
significant to you here today,
safer and more humane.
安全,也更人性化了。
and we changed the behavior.
up against system change.
on my earlier experiences
with offenders, the heat went down.
高漲的情緒降溫了。
the behavior changed.
superintendent of a small prison.
people who were not like me,
other state systems as well,
會改變我們的工作。
more interesting and exciting.
更有趣,也更刺激了。
是要處罰或原諒他們,
即使是在監獄。
violent offenders are housed.
例如受刑人計畫。
就會是這些特別的受刑人。
was these particular inmates.
what was possible, and this gives me hope.
for both staff and inmates,
和其他受刑人來說都更安全了。
a lot more than just controlling.
其它很多比管控更重要的事。
and environmental restoration.
但不需要好幾年。
需要許多小領航員,
in old ideas about prison.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Pacholke - Prison administrator and reformerDan Pacholke aims to keep the Washington State Department of Corrections on the front edge of innovation by rethinking the design of prisons, the training of officers and the education opportunities made available to inmates.
Why you should listen
Dan Pacholke has spent more than three decades working in prisons, first as a corrections office and later as an administrator. Now the Deputy Secretary of Operations for the Washington State Department of Corrections, he says, “I don’t see my job as to punish or forgive [inmates], but I do think they can have decent and meaningful lives in prison.”
Pacholke has dedicated his career to changing the way we think about corrections. Over the years, he has helped usher in programs designed to prevent fires before they start rather than fight them after they’ve flared up. Pacholke has been part of initiatives to redesign prison facilities to maximize interaction between the staff and inmates, to give corrections officers training in verbal de-escalation as well as physical response, and to give inmates opportunities to learn new things while they are in the system. As the co-director of the Sustainability in Prisons Project, Pacholke brought recycling, composting, horticulture and even bee-keeping programs into prisons—to give inmates meaningful work, but also to cut costs and make prisons more sustainable.
Dan Pacholke | Speaker | TED.com