Mr. Chair, it's because the system is not geared up to provide that support.
The problem is not necessarily that they have to find a way to help the women and protect them from harming themselves or from attempting suicide; they do need to find a way to do that, but they need to find a way to do it that is appropriate from a mental health point of view, as opposed to a correctional point of view.
They have been using the only tool available to them, or the main tool available to them, which is these cells on the segregation range, where they put these women. They don't have the same type of mental health support and clinical environment, perhaps, that a person being isolated in a mental health hospital would have, for example.
There are people who are not part of the correctional services, people who are in mental health institutions, who are also at risk of suicide or self-harm. They have to be put in an environment where they can be monitored to make sure they don't harm themselves, but they have all the other clinical support around them to try to help manage that issue, whereas in the correctional system they don't always have that. What they have is the one tool, which is to isolate the individual and put them in a segregation cell, but they don't always have all of the rest of the support that the person needs to get through that period of time when they are at risk of harming themselves or trying to commit suicide.