The Archambault Report was an influential study of the penitentiary system in Canada, published in 1938.
[3] Commissioners included Harry W. Anderson, Richard W. Craig, and James Chalmers McRuer.
[2] The report proposed sweeping changes for Canadian penitentiaries, emphasizing crime prevention and the rehabilitation of prisoners.
Included among the 88 recommendations were a complete revision of penitentiary regulations to provide "strict but humane discipline and the reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners."
While the commission's recommendations were not immediately implemented due to the advent of World War II, much of the report's philosophy remains influential.