Resources of course may be part of the answer. I think the challenge is the complexity with regard to the offender population and the profile of that inmate population. What we've seen over the years is that now we have over 60% of the inmate population requiring psychological or psychiatric services.
On average, the educational attainment of offenders is a grade 8 education. We have 75% of the offenders coming into the system with substance abuse issues. About two-thirds of them were intoxicated at the time of their index offence. Then you add the 30% who have hepatitis C and the almost 5% who have HIV. Almost a quarter of the inmate population is aboriginal. Almost 10% of them are black offenders. It becomes very difficult for the Correctional Service of Canada to try to address the employment needs, the mental health needs, and the vocational needs. It's a really big challenge, and I would certainly say that resources absolutely sometimes can be a part of the challenge here.
But again, this is done at the last stage of the criminal justice system, in corrections, and we should really think about trying to divert these individuals and consider that perhaps incarceration is not the way to go. There must be other programs and alternatives to incarceration, and better services upstream.