A comment was made earlier that there is a lack of services available while people are being held in pretrial custody, and I would suggest that this is accurate. That's an accurate statement. It's also been my observation that, even if a person is convicted, there's still a shortage of services in the institutions. The impact on the offender is that they're still in crisis, if you will, having to deal with the addiction issue or the mental health issue.
Incarceration is not necessarily the answer. It has to be done on a case-by-case basis. We have to do the analysis on a case-by-case basis. That's where we have to always put public safety and the risk to the community.... That has to be paramount.