Public Safety committee  Just following up on that, if there aren't the adequate resources in the community so persons being discharged.... If you have a five-star treatment facility within the prison system but there isn't a mechanism or there isn't the capacity and the appropriate resources in the comm

Public Safety committee  I would agree. I think it also makes sense in terms of obtaining a baseline for what training is currently on the ground, then ascertaining from there what the gaps are, and once you have the gaps, how best to address them.

Public Safety committee  I'm afraid I'm not aware of any. More broadly, some of the recommendations within the literature talk about tailoring services to a person's particular cultural background, whatever it may be, so it's specific to that. It's tailoring the service to that cultural background. It

Public Safety committee  No, not specifically on 12-step programs, but there are models with regard to mental health services. When people are under an Ontario Review Board order and they are transitioning into the community, the community providers actually will go into the forensic hospitals and work

Public Safety committee  Certainly with regard to substance abuse, the literature would indicate that there is a connection with substance abuse. It is a criminogenic risk factor in terms of recidivism. The literature on psychosis and psychotic symptoms has been mixed. More recently, actually, there wa

Public Safety committee  I can respond. I have not done that at a penitentiary, but at a local remand centre, yes, sir.

Public Safety committee  It would depend on what the illness is. Certainly in terms of treatment, there are facilities that have special needs units, though they seem to be woefully resourced, at least at the provincial level. Again, I couldn't speak about at the federal level. I think what would be ke

Public Safety committee  I couldn't speak to the actual figures. Again, the context from which I'm coming at it is really local remand centres or detention centres, which certainly, from my experience, from what I've seen, are woefully under-resourced.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, sir, I'm not familiar with that model.

Public Safety committee  Good morning. Thank you. I am very pleased to be here today, and I'd like to thank you all for the opportunity to speak with you on the very important issue of addressing mental illness and addictions within the federal correctional system. I will begin by briefly providing so