Public Safety committee  I'm familiar with it. I haven't actually seen it. It basically operates on a therapeutic type of model, and it uses first nations spirituality, teaching. I don't know, I haven't been familiar with the recent situation, but I know that it did encourage women to have their children

Public Safety committee  I think that is really key. It's very important. I think that a longer sentence is a sort of double-edged sword. Having a longer sentence gives you an opportunity to provide more programming, but in reality the longer that you keep people isolated from a normalized environment, f

Public Safety committee  It's probably all of those things. Poverty is one, in addition to a number of the systemic things the population has suffered. Generally speaking, from my experience, the first nations population, or aboriginal population, does not do well in our prison system, provincial or fed

Public Safety committee  I would like to comment about that, because that is a situation. The staff, often through the union, will push very hard for more technology, more security, and there is a balance. When we opened the institution that we did and moved things in a different direction, it took a tre

Public Safety committee  One of the things that hasn't been mentioned in terms of mental health, and one of the things that probably you're alluding to, is having interventions prior to sentencing. In B.C., they have a community court that's operating, they have a drug court that's operating, and one of

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify something, you don't have to segregate people when they're coming off drugs. That's not a necessity at all.

Public Safety committee  Amber didn't go into segregation when she came to Alouette. I think you were sort of implying that she was in segregation and then got out when she was there, but she wasn't in segregation there.

Public Safety committee  As far as the provincial population is concerned, 40% of those who are sentenced are on a non-compliant type of a sentence, so they're in breach of bail, breach of probation, non-compliant with a court order of some type. A very high percentage just break the rules of the court e

Public Safety committee  I'm talking about the female population. Then I would say that a very large chunk, probably the next 50%, would be drugs and property offences, and then there's a very small percentage that are violent.

Public Safety committee  Yes, and I'd like to clarify. There are also different types of segregation. You have administrative segregation or segregation that has been used and is often used in systems for mental health issues or self-harm issues, and then you have segregation that is used for separation

Public Safety committee  I think the most plausible is to basically have an agreement with the health authorities in the provinces; then you would have a consistent level or standard of health, which would match a community health level. That's really what the province has done. They just basically have

Public Safety committee  I think we basically had a physical environment that was conducive. It was a campus-style environment and it had a very large fence around it, so it certainly was secure from that perspective. We had an opportunity to start out with a small population to work with. We started wit

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It's provincial.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it's a medium open establishment.