Level 0 Introduction O.C.I.D. – Optimization of Correctional

Institution Design

Peter J. Stavroulakis

Sector of Industrial Management and Operational Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Technical University of Athens

International Mathematica Symposium 2012, University College London

Humans Face Difficult Decisions

Perhaps we should look into our past...

What Forces Many Individuals to Choose the Evidently Destructive Path?

...and ask what made humans so successful

The story begins not so long ago:

...so maybe for the most part we should expect system failure

But conceptually laws exist in order to be followed

• When even a single law is broken,

that not only constitutes failure of the human system, but of all systems

•Society should set the directive to be accepted, but corrective action can only come from within a system

Society would maybe benefit from a design that can reach a correctional institution’s goals more efficiently:

-Enforce sentence against personal freedom-Practically rehabilitate-System self-correction

“γηράσκω δ᾽ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος”– Gēraskō d' aíeí pollâ

didaskómenos.– I grow old always learning

many things.

Solon the Athenian

Specifics: Correctional institution model based on three

pillars

None of these ideas are new.

• All have been implemented independently

• Many are considered to be best practices, either in industry, society or corrections

• So why not integrate them all into one uniform and functional design?

When a person lacks personal freedom, that, by law, is the punishment.

So why not simultaneously set the backbone of self-correction and future law-abiding behavior?

Mission StatementO.C.I.D.

Earn Success^4

This research project consists of several BPR studies

1. How can we re-engineer and simultaneously optimize processes tailored for prisons?2. How can we render a design that has become wiser by learning from past mistakes?The first step is to “Identify Processes” and then study the “AS IS”...