Programs
Community Corrections
Community Corrections provides services to those members of the community who have become involved in the Criminal Justice System.
Compiling Court ordered reports which assist in sentencing and reviewing the progress of offenders.
Supervising offenders including adult and young offenders placed on cumminty supervision by the courts, which involves enforcing the conditions, and referring the offender to appropriate community resources.Probation Officers are in direct contact with other offices throughout the province to ensure continued supervision for clients who relocate.
Aboriginal Court Worker Program
Court Workers
¨The Aboriginal Court Worker Program is designed to aid aboriginal people appearing before the courts. The two court workers provide services such as: interpretation, lawyer referrals, legal aid referrals, helping aboriginals understand the criminals justice process, elder referral, liaison between the courts and the client, school/agency presentations and alternative sentencing referrals.
¨Court Workers work closely with Native Counseling Services of Alberta for clients appearing in other jurisdictions.
¨Provincial Court – both Court Workers and Probation Officers work closely with various members of the courts; from Court Clerks, Crown Prosecutors, Lawyers and Judges.
Crime Prevention
Lance Scout - Crime Prevention Coordinator and Ivan Healy - Blood Tribe Police Service
The Coordinator is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative local crime prevention programming designed to reduce the involvement of community members in criminal activity.
Duties include: development of community based preventative programming, working with local/ regional based police agencies.
Emphasis is placed on the cultural and spiritual programs to ensure participation of local elders with our youth.
We believe that our communities should be safe from crime and that crime in our communities can be greatly reduced if the citizens themselves actively participate to reduce crime and work towards strengthening our communities.
Crime Prevention in Schools
Elder George Good Striker with students from Kainai High School
Emphasis is place on the cultural and spiritual programs to ensure participation of local elders with our youth.
Elder George Good Striker with Kainai High School students
Conducting workshops to educate community members in making appropriate alternative to drugs and alcohol abuse, assist with other agencies wishing to establish similar programming, recruitment and working with volunteers.
Elders Program
Elder John Chief Moon counselling the clients
Local Elders are currently working closely with the Probation Officers, Court Workers, Crime Prevention Unit and their clients. The Elders participate in all levels of Kainai Corrections and have proven to be very valuable and essential. Besides program involvement, the Elders have advised at the Board level, staff, and liaise with the community and other agencies.
Elders from the community are available in providing spiritual advice and/or counseling, both on an individual and group basis. Elders also provide cultural /spiritual ceremonies such as hand games and sweat lodges.
Elder Art Calling Last seen here at a Sweat Lodge
Elder knowledge of our history, culture and traditions has contributed immensely in program development and community interaction. Elder's traditional teaching methods and philosophies have proven invaluable in building self awareness, self-esteem and identity. Elder counselling is a recognized form of rehabilitation, in regards to Temporary Absence applications.
Cultural Learning "how to set up a teepee"
¨The Elders program currently has two Elders working to offer Pipe Ceremonies
Minimum Security Correctional Facility
Offenders weight room
The Kainai Correctional Centre is an alternative aboriginal Correctional Centre, it has a 24 bed minimum security facility and accommodates aboriginal offenders.
Local tribal members of the Blood Tribe have been hired and trained as Correctional Officers, living unit officers and administration support staff to help provide a normalized environment.
Control - Security cameras
The Correctional Centre receives Short term/minimum security Aboriginal offenders. The aboriginal offender transfers vary from various institutions in the Province of Alberta, as follows: Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Center, Calgary Correctional Center, Peace River Correctional Center, Lethbridge Correctional Center, Edmonton Remand Center, Red Deer Remand Center and Medicine Hat Remand center.
The aboriginal offenders are transferred to Kainai Correctional Center, through the Lethbridge Correctional Center. The Kainai Correctional Center staff interviews offenders, and once the Lethbridge Correctional Center approves the offenders to transfer, they complete their incarceration at Kainai Correctional Center.
Correctional Center control area
Case/Documentation - Institutional records are obtained from the sending institution. Current Justice Department policy procedures, relating to institutional records and casework are maintained by the Kainai Correctional staff.
Volunteer assitance is appreciated in the program services at Kainai Correctional Center. Students train at the Kainai Correctional Center, from surrounding Post Secondary Institutes for practicum purposes. Institutes include the following: Lethbridge Community College, University of Lethbridge, Red Crow Community College, and Mount Royal College.
Community Service Work – A major component of KCC programs is work related to accommodate fine defaulters and short term inmates. A community service work crew provides work for non-profit agencies.
Spring cleanup - Offenders volunteer services
Human Relations:
The program is available to offenders in the evenings and on weekends. Aboriginal elders/community agencies are also utilized as resource personnel.
