As a former federal prisoner, I'll give you my personal view on the legislation as it stands from paragraph 31(3)(a) all the way through to, I believe, sections 38 to 42, which is the area in which we deal with administrative segregation of federal prisoners. I'm not going to speak about the voluntary basis. I'm only going to speak about police investigations and why they believed that placing you in segregation was a justifiable cause.
For us as prisoners, we oppose this bill. All the families are opposing this as they know it now because what they're trying to do is cut out the disciplinary court system.
For instance, as a violent offender and violent prisoner, which I was, I would find myself in violent altercations with other inmates, either brought on by the situation or by me advancing those situations to make those decisions. When this happens, it's only understandable that you need to be removed from everybody else. If there are two beasts in the room stabbing each other up, they need to be removed, but as I said, this all has to happen under the framework. At the time, we believed that meant being arrested and rightfully removed from the population, which was the law, until you were either bailed out by the five-day review program that they had in place...not that I believed in it. I only believed in the old framework.
If, in the administrative purpose, you're accused of acts that CSC is not going to bring against you.... For instance, they say that a shank is in my cell, and they say that I'm bringing in drones of drugs. You heard Anne Kelly yesterday. These things are all just speculation until I'm caught with something. That's why she has these authorities to use phone taps.