Chair, I'll start.
One of the things we've been doing specifically with individuals who are being released on statutory release is to try, for lack of a better word, to envelop them with the kinds of supports they need to make the transition in going from the institution.
Kingston Penitentiary, similar to the case in earlier comments related to the Edmonton institution, is a maximum security facility, and for the individuals who are leaving there it's a day-and-night kind of situation, going from a very tight security facility to the street. We've been looking at how to best facilitate that transition to the community, for simple things such as you have mentioned, such as when getting a social insurance number to help them fill out the forms ahead of time. Sometimes through our citizens' advisory committees, sometimes through the volunteers who come into the institutions, we help individuals with those processes.
But we've also looked at even the way we go about releasing individuals on the day of their release. At certain times individuals may be released on a Friday, which makes absolutely no sense, because now they're going from this completely tight security environment out onto the street. There are no social service support networks available over the weekend, and we run a very high risk of something happening. So we have been using provisions under the legislation to release a person a day earlier, so that the contacts with social services or support networks are made before they're facing a weekend, or a long weekend, whatever the case may be.
As I mentioned earlier, we have basically stretched the limits of our resources to do work there, or they continue to be stretched, because we're having to spend a lot more time dealing with the statutory release cases and are drawing on volunteers and citizen advisory committees to play a role in assisting with this issue.