Public Safety committee  Good morning, everyone. Mr. Chair, I would like to thank you and the honourable members of this committee for the opportunity to appear before you today. I'm Anne Kelly, senior deputy commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada, or CSC, and I have responsibility for ind

Public Accounts committee  One reason, as was said in the commissioner's opening remarks, is that we do not control the number of admissions—

Public Accounts committee  Again, the warrant of committal admissions is 24%, which is quite high, but we can't control the admissions. What we can control, though, is preparing the offenders for release.

Public Accounts committee  Again, I don't have the specifics, but what we were using before—and it was explained previously—was the custody rating scale. The custody rating scale is a security classification tool. Through research we found that there was a better tool, and that's the criminal risk index th

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  Are we still talking about the criminal risk index?

Public Accounts committee  That's right. I don't have them.

Public Accounts committee  Again, it's to determine the program intensity level, so that's done during the intake process. What we do is we determine the needs of the offenders and which program they should.... Well, we have one program now, the integrated correctional program model, specifically designed

Public Safety committee  Yes, there was an audit, but we've taken steps to ensure that those assessments are indeed completed.

Public Safety committee  I don't know the answer to that.

Public Safety committee  In terms of double bunking, obviously we still strive for single occupancy. That's not always possible. Again, I'll go back to what I said before, that we have an approach to this. The first thing we do... Again, it's through national population management committees and regional

Public Safety committee  Yes, there has been an increase, and that's why, certainly, it's a priority for us to manage aboriginal offenders and to reduce the overrepresentation. In Correctional Service of Canada we do quite a bit, actually. We do have some healing lodges where aboriginal offenders can b

Public Safety committee  I don't have the percentages here with me, but I can say that investments have been made in rehabilitation programs. We believe in this kind of program. Our programs are recognized around the world. When we assess inmates at intake, we direct them toward programs. We still depen

Public Safety committee  Again, in terms of our population management approach, it's a multifaceted approach. The first thing we do is ensure that all available cells are used. We have national population management strategy committees at both the national and the regional levels. This is something that

Public Safety committee  No, actually with the addition of the new cells, with most of them online by the end of March 2014, we expect to return to a level of double bunking of around 8%.