Under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, which governs CSC, it has two mandates. I'll explain them simply without reading the text of the act. The first mandate is to protect the safety of the public and ensure that the inmate does not escape. I would say that the mandate relates to security once the inmates are incarcerated.
The second mandate, which is as important, is that, one day, the inmate will be returned to the community. Let's take an inmate from organized crime, for example. He is incarcerated and serves his five-year sentence. Under the new legislation, he has served it fully and completely. Before he is returned to the community, we must be able to equip him to try to give him the opportunity to rehabilitate, as much as possible.
If we arrest an offender, incarcerate him and then return him to the community without trying to give him his chance at rehabilitation, are we fulfilling the mandate of protecting the safety of the public? No.