We offer Pathways units in various security levels. It's not just minimum security offenders who can access the Pathways initiatives. We also have elders in all levels of security—maximum, medium, and minimum.
Access to the healing lodges is for individuals who have been classified as minimum security. These facilities are not defined by fences. They're very much open-concept institutions. Going forward, we're trying to accelerate both the intake assessment and the involvement in those programs. We want this to happen within the first month or two that an inmate comes into the system, as opposed to what was happening before, where it could take up to 150 or 160 days for individuals to get involved in programs.
We're literally targeting the first week that they come into the institution. Their assessments are going to include asking them which stream they would like to pursue. They stay in the intake units and start their program primers, and in some cases they actually start their full programs while they're still in intake, without waiting until they've been transferred to another institution.
The other big change we are putting in place is that we will changing the lens through which we look at offenders who have completed the program. We're going to take a bit of what we call a presumptive transfer to lower security upon completion of the program. What the parole officers would have to do in these cases is sort of the reverse of what they're doing today: it's that once an offender has competed their program, the assumption is that they are now ready to be transferred to lower security.