I thank you for your question. Earlier I touched on the challenges that our correctional services officers face when dealing with the numerous opportunities and the circulation of goods and unwanted goods in our facilities. Commissioner Head can comment further on this, but one thing we've certainly noticed in the past is that some visitors may represent the potential for carrying unwanted substances. We have to make sure that correctional services have the authority to prevent those potential threats from entering our facilities in order to maintain a drug-free lifestyle in our prisons.
If I may, Mr. Norlock, let me share with you the positive results we get from our national substance abuse program. It works in our facilities. Correctional Service of Canada is devoting large efforts to supporting inmates who enter into a rehabilitation program. There are very positive results compared to the results for offenders who do no participate in the national substance abuse program. They are almost five times more likely to be granted conditional release because they are drug-free; they are 45% less likely to return due to a new offence, and they are 63% less likely to return due to a new violent offence.
Those numbers say that the programs put in place by Correctional Services to help inmates get free of drugs are an investment, actually, because they prevent inmates from reoffending and being put back into our facility.