You ask me what the current situation is.
We looked at the figures over a five-year period. During this period, about a dozen cases were reported each year, for a prison population of about 14,000 individuals. If we take into account the comings and goings of some inmates and the number of individuals who stayed in the penitentiaries during this period, we are talking about 20,000 people who stayed in the institutions, and only about a dozen cases were reported. The Correctional Service has investigated one-third of these cases internally, which means four or five cases per year. It was found that charges were laid, criminal suits were initiated, or some action taken in only 12% of these cases. This is extremely low. This suggests that there is a much more serious problem.
In 2007, the service conducted a survey of inmates but did not ask about violent sexual abuse. It asked a question about sexual activity, but did not ask whether or not it was consensual. Among men, 17% of the inmate population reported having engaged in sexual activity. In the female population, it was 31%. We know that this is part of the prison experience, but we do not know the extent of coercion and sexual violence in this environment.