Mission Statements are for Everyone

Minnesota Department of Corrections
Website address:
http://www.corr.state.mn.us/

Mission Statement is
Our Mission:
To hold offenders accountable and offer opportunities for change while restoring justice for victims and contributing to a safer Minnesota.

Our Dedicated staff will accomplish this by:

Fostering community partnerships
Optimizing best practices
Creating a respectful diverse culture
Utilizing effective communication
Strategic and efficient use of resources

Our Vision is to FOCUS on reducing risk.

**The Minnesota Dept of corrections mission statement seems to utilize both the Rehabilitation prospective and the Restorative Justice Prospective. While the statement admits to the importance of holding offenders accountable, it also offers to want to constructively restore justice as well as offering chances for change while making Minnesota safer without much focus or emphasis on punishment and more on ways of using resources and ideas to better the community.**

Minnesota Department of Public Safety

Website address:
http://www.dps.state.mn.us/

Mission Statement
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety is committed to protecting citizens and communities through activities that promote and support prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, education, and enforcement. These objectives are achieved through a focus on saving lives, providing efficient and effective services, maintaining public trust, and developing strong partnerships.

Dept of public safety mission statement adheres to the Rehabilitation Prospective as it offers activities, education, and recovery as key elements of making the public aware of ways to protect themselves as well as their own community. The statement displays a more educational or structural way of dealing with safety as a whole, as it suggests that each program is dedicated to the utmost public safety.




Minnesota Judicial Branch

Website address: http://www.mncourts.gov/default.aspx

Mission Statement:
The purpose of the Minnesota Judicial Council is to govern the Judicial Branch through the establishment and monitoring of administrative policies designed to achieve an accessible, fair and timely system of justice statewide and to ensure that the Judicial Branch functions as an independent and accountable branch of government.

In support of this purpose, the Judicial Council will exercise administrative policy-making authority for, but not limited to, the following:
Development and implementation of the branch strategic plan;
Budget priorities, budget request, and submission of the Judicial Branch budget request to the executive and legislative branches;
Collective bargaining;
Human resources;
Technology;
Education and organizational development;
Finance, including budget distribution amongst levels of court and amongst districts;
Programs, including jury, Guardian ad Litem, interpreter, expedited child support, and Children’s Justice Initiative; and
Core services, court performance and accountability.

The Judicial Branch mission statement indicates a policy in favor of the due process prospective of justice as it wants the system to be fair and timely, but also effective and accountable.