I think what you're talking about is a healing lodge. We have one for women, and that is a culturally appropriate environment where they can practise their culture and their teachings, and where there are ceremonies. It is steeped in aboriginal culture.
Aboriginal intervention centres are a little different. We've implemented them at seven of the men's sites, and now we will be implementing one at the women's site. Basically, we're going to have a group of staff and provide them with specialized training in aboriginal social history, in section 84 releases, in how to translate elder services and participation in pathways into the report that they prepare. Aboriginal intervention centres are going to be mostly for women offenders serving relatively short sentences. At intake, we're going to ask them whether or not they want to follow an aboriginal stream. If they agree to it, then we're going to provide them, right at intake, with aboriginal-specific programming.
The other thing is that at these aboriginal intervention centres we're going to have aboriginal community development officers who basically work with the women and the community if the women want to go back to their aboriginal communities. Instead of starting the release process six months prior to their release, we're going to start right at intake, which is going to give us a couple of years to work with the aboriginal community.
With the aboriginal intervention centres, something we have put in policy is that once an offender has successfully completed a program, we will immediately, or within 30 days, reassess their security classification. So far, with our men's sites, preliminary findings are good. We find that once they've completed a program and we reassess their security classification, either they're going to minimum—if they're not quite ready, we place them into a pathways unit so they can continue to work with the elder—or their case is prepared for presentation to the Parole Board of Canada. We're hoping to see similar results for the women, especially aboriginal women.