The Power in Compassion : Transforming the Correctional Culture [Paperback]

Vicki Sanderford-O'Connor (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0970607105 | ISBN-13: 978-0970607102 | Publication Date: April 24, 2001

A powerful perscription for an ailing institution. A program to help you speak more openly about self-reliance, teamwork and accountability. To focus on personal values as anchors to give your life renewed meaning. Move beyond the-self defeating culture that denies the need for change. Transform the present system one person at a time through the power of compassion: a tool that unleashes integrity, fosters honest communication, and improves leadership at every level of the system. Because each of us has the power to change for the better. Don't we owe it to ourselves?

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Review

"An excellent resource for those entering the field of corrections and for correctional trainers." -- T.H. Wildes, Assistant Chief of Jails, Sheriffs Office, Jacksonville, Flordia

From the Author

I always thought it would be an inmate or a parolee who took me out, not the stress. After sixteen years in the California Department of Corrections, I suffered a stress-induced heart attack. One minute I had an exciting career and national visability, the world seem promising. The next I thought I was going to die. When my son determined that he would follow in my footsteps and entered the Correctional Officer Academy, I wrote him a series of letters, giving him information to help him work successfully in the system. Information to help him maintain his health by addressing up front those issues that contribute to the stress of the profession, such as managing the effects of evil, fear and politics, which are not addressed in any classroom of which I am aware.To help him maintain the integrity of his family. Upon drafting these letters, I determined that my son would not be working in a vacuum, and that there are many others who could benefit from a mother-yet seasoned- warrior's best wisdom on the correctional culture. Here then are those letters.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 63 pages
• Publisher: O'connors Enterprises Inc (April 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970607105
• ISBN-13: 978-0970607102
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,744,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, March 14, 2002

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Deanna DeMaagd (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power in Compassion : Transforming the Correctional Culture (Paperback)

Let me first say that I do not work in the correctional field. This book, however, speaks to the soul of an independent thinker needing to speak their mind with compassion and deliver their message. Well-written and good reading - this book is a must for anyone looking to transform themselves in today's confused world. Thank you Ms. O'Connor for your book. Please let us hear more from you.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Power in Compassion: Transforming the Correctional Cultu, August 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Power in Compassion : Transforming the Correctional Culture (Paperback)

Although I'm not in the correctional field, the book intrigued me because it's a story about a person who - instead of reacting to her circumstances only - she took a good hard look at herself and started the changes there. Those changes affected the system in which she worked. That's the way I like to do things, too, from the inside out. The correctional field offers its workers a brutal setting, with a lot of workers opting to react defensively and violently. Here, from someone who worked in the system for 16 years, is a way to survive the system and try to make it a better place, both inside and out.I like it that she wrote the book as letters to her son who was going to be a correctional officer. She wrote about the unspoken correctional culture, where the officers are invincible, but morally and emotionally affected by their work, without any effort to take support offered because taking any help would show weakness, and weakness earns you ostracism.