The Diploma in Correction and Rehabilitation is designed to strengthen the Skills Knowledge and
the experiences of employees in the Sri Lankan prison department in pursuit of professional growth
throughout their career with the aim of building a capable and prepared workforce through
reinforcing professional values of prison officers. Corrections officers are also referred to as
correctional officers, detention officers or prison officers. These professionals are responsible for
looking over those who have been arrested and are awaiting trial, as well as those who have been
convicted and are serving jail time. Therefore these officers are engaging in a vital duty on crime
control as well as social control in the country. They require a sound knowledge on correction and
rehabilitation methodologies and techniques for a beneficiary service on their clients in a rapidly
changing world.
However the present education or professional development programs on prison officers are not
directly or completely addressing the demanded scientific knowledge and skill development
activities in the rehabilitation and correctional fields. On the other hand currently there is no other
university level course addressing particularly the subjects of correction and habitation directly on
the prison officers in Sri Lanka. Apparently the commissioner General of prisons in Sri Lanka has
requested from the University to design a suitable diploma program meeting the above necessities
that can be fulfilling National requirements. The body of knowledge in Criminology and Criminal
Justice directly addresses those issues in the professional fields in the criminal justice system and
vastly throughout other Universities in the World. Such an educational course directly oriented on
the prison officers, based on the Multidisciplinary subject areas included in the course would
definitely facilitate prison officers to gain their professional objectives under University
environment.
Launching of this diploma program for prison officers in Sri Lanka will also make several other
benefits to the University of Kelaniya as well as to the department of sociology. This is opening
up new pathways to work engaged with Prison department as a professional body and the
University of Kelaniya will help them to reach local and international standard levels in Prison
management. In addition to that starting of such courses will strengthen the existing capacities of
the department of Sociology both academically and financially.
Therefore the department of Sociology, University of Kelaniya is expecting to start a diploma
program in correction and rehabilitation for prison officers in Sri Lanka as expecting a national
requirement.
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