Thank you.
Earlier this year, the Parliamentary Budget Officer tabled a report looking at costs of inmates. What came to my attention was that the cost for those who were in segregation was extremely high compared with the cost for all other types of inmates. Minimum and medium security were about $130 to $230 a day, depending on the type of facility, but segregation was costing over $1,000 a day—about $1,269 is what they estimated.
Why is there such a difference in the costs? Is this the new implementation of the SIUs that we've been hearing a lot about, the resources that are going to be needed for this? Would there be savings in other areas that might be recouped from this program?