Public Safety committee  The keeper terminology I'm very familiar with. It was the terminology when I started in corrections in 1977. The current terminology is “correctional supervisors”, and there are two issues regarding the correctional supervisors. Part of the discrepancy in relation to somebody wh

Public Safety committee  We don't have many levers. We have a few. For example, we have an inmate pay regime--as it's commonly referred to--where a monetary reimbursement is made to an offender. It can be linked to their program participation, their work activities. And if individuals choose not to, they

Public Safety committee  No, the way the law is constructed right now, the restrictions are fairly tight.

Public Safety committee  They can earn an additional allowance based on the productivity and the work, and that's linked again to the sales of the goods they're producing.

Public Safety committee  There are a couple. One is finding, for lack of a better phrase, an anchor business in certain geographic regions across the country. We've had, at times, certain CORCAN activities that have been seen to be in competition with local suppliers or local producers of some form of go

Public Safety committee  If you're asking me whether I would take more money to do more programs, the answer is absolutely, yes. With the programs that we are now focusing on and with our strong belief in terms of the research and the desired outcomes, the more capacity we have to deliver the programs,

Public Safety committee  No. Part of our problem is that we have not been adapting quickly enough. The changes are more pronounced. When we've done a snapshot, they have been growing incrementally over the last couple of years--a couple of percent a year--until after five or six years, you've got a signi

Public Safety committee  Chair, I'll start. One of the things we've been doing specifically with individuals who are being released on statutory release is to try, for lack of a better word, to envelop them with the kinds of supports they need to make the transition in going from the institution. King

Public Safety committee  Within Correctional Service Canada, we'd have no capacity to measure that. We would just look at the pure inflow-outflow impact of the bill.

Public Safety committee  It varies with the program and the intensity of the program. One of the things we can share with the committee is an overview of the various programs and the research about the impact of lowering recidivism. In certain types of programs, we've seen a range anywhere from 17% to 24

Public Safety committee  In this area, we're pursuing both an institutional and a community-based strategy. We received money last year to put in place a stronger support mechanism and service delivery component for individuals who are going out into the community with mental health issues. I think we're

Public Safety committee  Sure, sir, a couple of things. It is interesting that we as a service have not had a chance to directly interact with Louise Arbour about her comments. Our understanding is that they came after the release of the ten-year report and some interactions she had with some other indi

Public Safety committee  It's a major concern for us at this moment. We are looking at what steps we can take in terms of accelerating the assessment process for individuals who received a two- to three-year sentence. Given that many of them come in with a substance abuse problem, we're also looking at w

Public Safety committee  A good portion of the people you see at 340 Laurier are national headquarters staff. The public safety department is also located at 340 Laurier--the secretariat, as we commonly refer to it--and they have responsibility for things such as helping to shape correctional policy. Whe

Public Safety committee  Yes, those are very close numbers, sir.