Thank you, Mr. Holland.
I appreciated the commentary, because Ms. Naltchayan talked about the victims. It may be a surprise to the committee members that in fact some of the Earl Jones victims are people who have obtained services and we have supported them through this process. They're individuals who have expressed very clearly the need for social justice reforms of the sort that our organization stands for. The notion is not lost on me that victims may feel as if they've been raped, when just yesterday we had demonstrations again across the country about the missing and murdered aboriginal women who don't obtain justice.
The issue of having resources in place for people before they're victimized and for people after they're victimized is a huge issue for our organization, and it's something that I think all of the organizations here have worked very hard to achieve. One of the things we do by putting more and more money into jailing more and more people—not just targeting the individuals we want to prevent from going on to commit more crime—is that we end up sucking the resources out of the community that allow us to support people who have been victimized, to prevent people from being victimized, and to support people who have paid their debt to society to reintegrate in a way that causes us to have a safer community overall.
So putting more and more resources into imprisonment is not making us safer. There's abundant evidence of that. Otherwise, the United States would not be retreating from its position.