Best Practices in Public Administration and Governance

Prisoner Rehabilitation and Reform in Correctional Systems

Department of Corrective Services, Government of Western Australia, Australia: the Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women. For providing meaningful rehabilitation activities to address the needs of women prisoners before they are re-integrated to the community.

Bulacan, Philippines. For its programs on cooperative development, better learning system, women empowerment, constituent responsive governance, reinventing public service delivery, livelihood and job creation, and prisoner rehabilitation.

North Carolina: Structured Sentencing. For reforming the state’s corrections system, reducing overcrowding in prisons, and blending appropriate measures and reforms of sentencing and correctional reforms.

Massachusetts: Public Health Model for Corrections. For the Hampden County Correctional Center’s (HCCC) innovative health program in pursuing rehabilitation which is guided by the integral component that each inmate must have every opportunity to succeed upon return to the community.