Thank you for the question.
One of the effects, for sure, from evidence we've looked at--some of it anecdotal, some of it more empirical--really goes to the effect of family on rehabilitation. If you have no access to your family, you have no access to your community, and the likelihood of your being able to serve time or to be rehabilitated and enter easily back into your family or into your community is lessened. Therefore, in some cases the likelihood, then, of reoffending grows higher because a person hasn't been accepted back into their family or into their community. So somebody who is sent thousands of miles away from their community is not going to have any contact...maybe the odd phone call or letter from their family. There's a great harm in terms of the ability of that person to deal with the issues and for the community.
It's important in our case to talk about community because community is going to be one of the keys in terms of that person being rehabilitated, being accepted back into society, being part of something that's functioning at the family...and larger than the family order.