Overcrowding is what happens.
The average Canadian doesn't care whether we put three inmates in a cell or four inmates in a cell, but for us as correctional officers, we certainly do because we have to open the cells.
The corrections model we have here in Canada is for programs, treatment, and reintegration. But although our numbers in prison may be growing, our infrastructure hasn't changed. If you have one classroom that used to be there for 200 inmates, you now have one classroom for 400 inmates. It makes it difficult to access.
Time goes on. The clock starts ticking the minute they walk in the door until the minute they are released.
There's also pressure for our wardens to cascade inmates from a maximum security level to a medium to a minimum. The idea is to cascade them and get them back out on the street reintegrated.
Are we always putting out the best product that way, with where we are right now? Unfortunately, I'm not sure we are. Keeping them in longer or releasing inmates at warrant expiry makes our job tougher, because that inmate then faces every day as if he didn't care.