Designing

Outcomes

Opportunities and Risks

Prison Planning, Design, Construction and Maintenance 2013 Conference Keith Ketheeswaran

Melbourne 9 December 2013

Designing for Outcomes

How can we design prisons that - predictably, reliably and consistently - produce the results we all want?

Key Themes:

• Emerging new realities and how to confront them? • GEO experience and learning

Post GFC: The New Realities

• Affordability and focus on outcomes • Community expectations • Prisoner demographics • Ageing infrastructure

“The required deficit cutting nationally will hurt, but it also

provides an opportunity for programs to be tested for effectiveness.”

David Brooks

Not So New within Australian

Corrections…

Arthur

Gorrie

Corporate Junee

Fulham

Parklea

• Input/Prescriptive

• Indexation

• Fees at risk/Abatements

• Reward for innovation

• Pay for performance

Prison Contracts Evolution

GEO Response: Relentless

Focus on Outcomes

• Performance Assurance

– Right metrics

– GRC

• Innovation & Technology

– Faster proof of concept

– Re-entry partnerships

• Affordability

– High productivity/Maximum flexibility

– Efficiency dividend to tax payer

– Funding innovations

Impact Assessment Challenge

Metrics

• No lack of data

• Not focused on outcomes

Mission

• “To eliminate poverty and its causes”

• “Affirm the dignity and worth of families living in poor communities”

MWMM

• Capability measures

• Operational measures

• Impact measures

Internet of Everything: The

Connected Prison?

• Biometric identification

• Flexible security configuration

• In-cell technology

• Prisoner “Self – Service”

• GEO Gateway/GEO CHiP

• Impactful interaction

Affordable Prison Estate: New

Money?

• Re-entry partnerships

• Pay for results not activities

• Rapid learning about what works

• Monetising the benefit – the new future?

Name is Bond: Social Impact Bond

GEO: Putting It All Together

Shifting the Paradigm: One

Prisoner at a Time

“Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin”