I think you might want to look at who's actually in our segregation cells. I used to work with young people and with men. In the last fifteen and a half years I have worked with women. The majority of the people in isolation are people who have mental health issues.
It's a form of torture, and part of the issue to be looked at is the Canadian government's responsibility in that respect. I would suggest that it's not because anybody intends to torture someone. When you put someone in a position because that's the only place they can be monitored in a prison setting and it becomes a torturous experience, that's something you should be concerned about. I suspect you are. It's not merely, as perhaps is more commonly believed, because people have necessarily misbehaved.
When Madam Justice Arbour looked at the situation, she recommended a limit on the amount of time people could be placed in segregation because of the significant implications that kind of isolation has on individuals, both on themselves and as well, when they ultimately return, to the community. You don't want people coming out who have been kept in that kind of isolation. As I mentioned, the human and financial costs of that are huge.