I can only speak directly from my own organization, but I'm also co-chair of the Canadian Forensic Mental Health Network, so I'm familiar with some pressures across the country.
Most forensic services nationally are at or near capacity. If you look at Ontario, most of us are running over capacity. Clearly, if one gets overcrowding within secure mental health facilities, the risk of violent behaviour, both patient to patient and patient to staff, rises and those environments become more dangerous and less therapeutic.
We then get further problems of people waiting to gain access to forensic beds having to wait in remand in provincial prisons, and that results in other negative outcomes for both the offenders and the prisons they're in.
An increase in demand for forensic beds coming from people taking longer to rehabilitate would require an increase in forensic in-patient capacity. They are the most expensive beds in the mental health system.