The more limited access is to conditional release options. The more the statutory provisions allow, and in fact are supposed to ensure, that they happen, the more we'll see these individuals not being able to earn their way out. Right now, people have to earn their way out. I can tell you that the women I'm talking about, including women who go back and forth now from the community to Pinel, who used to go back and forth from psychiatric hospitals to segregation units--and there was a lot of intervention to break that cycle--are individuals who would continue to be in the system right now if we didn't have interventions like statutory release.
As we see some of the elimination of those options, we're going to see more individuals to warrant expiry, and then they'll be released into the community. We already see them at that stage now. Last year, there was a women who went straight from the management protocol described in the correctional investigator's report to the street. She went from being cuffed at the back, in a security gown, escorted by three to five staff through the institution whenever she was out of her cell, to the street, with no resources, or virtually no resources. Eventually we were able to get some resources for her.
That's what we're going to increasingly see. It's a set-up. It's a huge financial cost, but it's also a huge human and social cost for those individuals and for the community as a whole, because there aren't resources. Far better to invest those services now in community-based services, even locked forensic mental health services if we need them, than to put them into prisons, I would suggest. Our organization would support that.