Preface: The Roadmap as Public Policy The title of our response and the design of the cover page is informed by the 1990 Green Paper published by the Minister of Justice and the Solicitor General of Canada “Directions for Reform: A Framework for Sentencing, Corrections and Conditional Release”, which laid the foundations for the 1992 Corrections and Conditional Release Act. [...] Summary Executive Summary Context for the Review On April 20th, 2007, The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety announced the appointment of a Panel charged with the task of reviewing the operations of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). [...] Credibility turns on factors such as the reasons for the study, expertise of the review Panel in the field under study, objectivity of the chairperson, appropriate resources for research, adequacy of the time frame, and the opportunity for public consultation regarding the recommendations. [...] The CCRA was not simply a re- sponse to the challenges of operational requirements and the offender profile of the federal prison population in the 1980s but a far-reaching legislative response to the requirements of Canada's Constitution that enshrine Canadian values. [...] John Howard, whose 1777 seminal work The State of the Prisons in England and Wales in- spired the idea of the modern penitentiary as a humane response to crime, in his proposals for reform of the prisons, was insistent that punishment, in order to be effective, must maintain its moral legitimacy in the eyes of both the public and the offender.