EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
The Department of Correctional Services is a government agency under the Ministry of National Security in Jamaica. There is a total of eleven facilities on the island.
Due to sentencing laws, the majority of inmates are held at the two maximum security facilities. These facilities are St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre.
On the other hand, the lower security facilities are below capacity, these two facilities regularly hold high above their maximum capacity. The high population in some of the facilities and lack of funding has led to substandard living conditions.
Many of the inmates are held in cells that are infested with fleas, lice, and cockroaches. Many of these cells are designed only to hold one or two individuals, any additional inmates are forced to sleep on the floor. Quiet often, they are allowed out of their cells twice a day to visit the washroom.
Despite an effort for reform, corruption in the prison system allows guards to abuse inmates, sometimes to the point of death. In early 2017, the South Camp facility became the new women’s facility. The women were moved there from the aging Ft. Augusta facility.
The women’s facility faces many of the same issues of overcrowding, poor living conditions, and abuse that the other facilities do.Human rights advocacy group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has raised concerns that the practice has re-emerged and provided The Sunday Gleaner with statistics which suggest that “in 2018, some 413 children (211 males and 203 girls) appeared before court, not for committing an offence but for exhibiting “uncontrollable behaviour”.
Thus putting a project plan in place to build a new facility with these issues above as one, will be able to better plan for these inmates as there will be a better facility to place our children and there will be proper planning for rehabilitation. It will be easier to have educational opportunities in the correction facility and therefore the human rights laws will not be breached.
Amid the clash of thoughts there appears to be a strong view that Jamaica needs a new prison. No matter what one’s position is in the debate, it is undeniable that the conditions in our prisons fall well below standards prescribed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and International Minimum Standards.
The general objective is, to create a project management plan for a New PenalFacility in Jamaica with better planning strategies so that proper planning and rehabilitation can take place.
The specific objectives were; to create a project charter that formally authorizes the project and provide the Project Manager with the authority to use organizational resources on the project in order to produce the project management plan, to create a scope management plan to ensure that all works required are included to successfully complete the project, to create a schedule management plan to support the development and management of a project schedule that ensures the project is completed within the time constraints, to create a cost management plan to define the processes for developing and managing the project budget that ensures the project is completed within thebudget constraints, to develop a quality management plan to identify the quality requirements for the project, to ensure the results meet expectations for approval within the time, cost and scope constraints, to create a human resource management plan to ensure that all human resources are identified and managed effectively to complete the project within time, cost and scope constraints, to develop a communication management plan to ensure the timely and effective communication of the project status and other key information, to create a risk management plan to identify and examine risks to the successful completion of the project and develop plans to minimize the likelihood of the risks, to develop a procurement management plan to be used to obtain products, services or resultsrequired by the project, to develop a stakeholder management plan to identify and support all the project stakeholders to ensure effective stakeholder engagement.
The methodology used for the research was analytical or explanatory. The main sources used to gather information included A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Edition and interviews, which were held with members from the client and performing organization. The information was analyzed to create each subcomponent of the subsidiary plans used to develop the Project Management Plan for a Penal Facility.
The methodology used is analytical and explanatory, the main source of the information is PMBOK6. Interviews were held with members of the organization and other stakeholder that have vested interest in the project. The information provided was used to developed aspects of the of the development plan.
The Project Management Plan, developed using the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition, provided a new methodology for the project team to build a more thorough project management plan for a project as important as the New Penal Facility, to improve the way the company would manage the project.
It is recommended that the project team will consider the use of the planning process and documents developed during the development of the Project Management Plan for the building of the department of correctional services as a basis for implementing a methodology for similar projects in the future. Furthermore, the team at the Department of Correctional Services should also seek to utilize and document management and storage systems, to organize, store and create a central location for project planning documents and future Organizational Process Assets.
Estudiante : Lincoln Anthony Dennis
Aprobado: Octubre 2020
Tutor: Carlos Brenes Vega
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