Double-bunking is down. It was at an all-time high during the construction period that the Correctional Service of Canada went through. There was a lot of dislocation and relocation and involuntary transfers.
As you may recall, over the last eight years the Correctional Service of Canada has closed three institutions, decommissioned about 1,000 cells, built about 2,700 new ones, and had a net increase of about 1,700 cells. Part of that was to accommodate the 10% growth in population that we talked about and part of it was to alleviate other population pressures, primarily double-bunking. That is the placement of two inmates in a cell designed for one.
Double-bunking was so high on the prairies a few years back that they were double-bunking in segregation. We've seen that ameliorated.
Of course, this has come at tremendous expense. It cost $750 million to $800 million in capital expense to build those 2,700 cells, and then there's the ongoing expense of operating them.
There's still some mismatch between the available bed capacity and the population distribution by security level, by region, and by gender.