It would depend on what the illness is. Certainly in terms of treatment, there are facilities that have special needs units, though they seem to be woefully resourced, at least at the provincial level. Again, I couldn't speak about at the federal level.
I think what would be key is that you have the treatment resources, further to what Mr. Livingston was indicating, that are comparable, that would be available in a community context so that you have adequate addiction services, adequate psychiatric resources for psycho-pharmacological intervention, but one of the difficulties in local remand centres is often those services aren't available.
In terms of the term “dead time”, it's often applied to that context because such services aren't available.