At the time of the audit, we were identifying that CSC was using the custody rating scale to assign indigenous offenders to their rehabilitation programming. The custody rating scale was primarily designed to assign an offender to a level of security. It wasn't designed specifically to assign rehabilitation programming to the offender. In contrast, the criminal risk index is a tool that is more appropriately used to assign programming to offenders. They had already discovered the tool and they had already piloted it, so our comment was that if it looks like that tool is perhaps better than the custody rating scale tool to assign programming to offenders, then CSC should consider using it for all offenders, including the indigenous offenders.
On February 15th, 2017. See this statement in context.