I have a brief question on administrative segregation. During our tour, we talked to various caseworkers. Many of them told us that the use of segregation in mental health cases was not really a good idea. I was speaking with the chaplain at the SHU, I believe. He told me that, on the one hand, segregation was a disaster for individuals with mental health problems, because it aggravated those problems. Sometimes individuals arrived at the SHU without any mental health problems but after a while went crazy. That's what he told me. When I questioned the psychiatrist who was there, she hesitated on that point.
I would like to know whether Ms. Perreault, who deals with the psychologists and psychiatrists, and Ms. Vallée can tell me whether segregation is really effective in treatment terms.