As someone who has been doing this work for the last 28 years, first with young people, then with men, and then with women, I have yet to see the adequacy of programs that are being described. Most people in corrections will agree. I was just in Moncton with Ashley Smith's family doing a fundraiser. A whole bunch of corrections people came up afterwards and thanked me for speaking out because they can't. There are virtually no supports and programs now. We're going to end up with more Ashleys if we don't start changing what's happening and making sure people understand what's happening.
The reality is that despite the best efforts of many people in corrections to do the best they can, both in the community and in prison, the mounting numbers and the more limited resources for actual programs and services and more for security and those sorts of measures mean there aren't as many programs, even in the federal system. There are virtually none in the provincial and territorial, and none in local lockups.