There are usually two accounts—unless things have changed. I will tell you what I think the situation is. I am actually almost certain. There is what we call a current account and a savings account. If I am not mistaken, once or twice a year, inmates have a right to transfer money from their savings account to their current account in order to buy Christmas gifts or a specific piece of equipment.
Let's talk about the underground economy. It is important to check those types of money transfers with the help of a good intelligence service. So we must make sure that those inmates, who have a right to transfer the funds, buy only what they really need.
I told you earlier about positions of trust in the institutions. Who is on the canteen staff? Inmates are going to buy things at the canteen. Some of the canteen staff are not civilian personnel. They are inmates. When inmates want to buy pop or chips, they don't get them from a staff member, but from another inmate. So an exchange takes place, but not a money exchange because there is no money. It is done through the hands of someone and it is all electronic. The fact remains that someone gives the inmates what they want and they have to pay for it.
Since we are talking about positions of trust and we are looking at all that... I would ask your committee to take the time and look into that, to ask questions in order to find out who is in those positions of trust, and who the canteen workers in an institution are. Let's say the canteen person is Joe X. Is he a member of an organized crime group, or a street gang? Is he with the Hells Angels? I encourage you to check that, to check that information. You will see the extent to which the underground economy is managed by people with bad intentions, unfortunately. They belong to organized crime groups outside prison. Can we really believe that, once in prison, they are not going to try and organize themselves in the same way? Of course they are going to try.