Public Safety committee  Probably not. No.

Public Safety committee  You're going to find that everybody is different. What we've found in our research with aboriginal women is that everybody comes from a different band, everybody believes different things, and cultural sensitivity is not always followed in institutions. Actually, only once have I

Public Safety committee  No, that's all right. Ruth is my mentor. I've been working with Ruth and she has been educating me for the last couple of years. Other than that, formally I have a grade 12 education, like everybody else, and I'm sure I would exceed that now. What led me to heroin addiction wa

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  The employment has definitely been a big thing. I actually didn't take the step of taking the employment; I was doing it as a volunteer for a couple of years. They kept prodding me to take the job, and I did. It has been really, really good in my life.

Public Safety committee  I'm in agreement with Brenda. You will find those instances where there are going to be people who will want segregation. I don't know why, but it's the manner in which you do it, right? Taking away someone's mattress and blanket and pillow and a magazine is inhumane. That's not

Public Safety committee  I was sent to a prison that let me have segregation that dealt with.... I was waiting to get into prison--prisons were so full at that time--and had spent nine days detoxing in city cells, which was just wonderful. So not only was I throwing up in city cells, but I had no food an

Public Safety committee  Well, Ruth was talking about bringing in community health care. Coming off drugs is not an easy thing. I didn't have the luxury of getting onto the methadone maintenance plan like some people. I had to do it cold, hard turkey. In the majority of cases people don't get methadone w

Public Safety committee  Yes. I needed a detox where I was safe. It was not segregation. I had six other women in the cell with me.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. We are hoping to be able to start training men to do what we're doing. The Doing Time project is a community-based participatory action research project. I can't remember how many team members we have, but we've got nine women, I think--maybe more, maybe less--who are

Public Safety committee  Every time.

Public Safety committee  You know--

Public Safety committee  I am completely in agreement that the system failed, 100%, and I'm almost 100% positive that maybe if I had been given the chance to be out of segregation, I would have been able to make it. Brenda was talking about the time women spend in segregation. That is a really big thin

Public Safety committee  Maybe it's something to take a look at, because when you're counting the bricks on the walls just to keep your mind from going crazy--