Mr. Blair, when the correctional investigator appeared before the committee earlier this month, he told us that the CSC has the highest staff-to-inmate ratio in the world, with 19,000 employees for just 12,500 inmates. That's one and a half staff for every inmate. He also told us that the inmates don't have access to much more than pencil and paper when dealing with programming. They don't have access to tablets or computers or supervised use of the Internet, and they don't have practical tools and vocational training.
Why is it that the department in this departmental plan is actually increasing by 353 their full-time staffing equivalents instead of reallocating resources to provide the kind of programming that's necessary to help prisoners be rehabilitated and be able to live better lives in the community?