It's just economy of scale. We have only about 600 incarcerated women across Canada, in five different institutions across the nation, so a lot of it has to do with still needing a lot of staff. It's much more cost-efficient to have a single institution with lots of people, than to have five, but we chose five back in 2000, and rightly so, to ensure the women would be closer to their communities. It's only, by and large, an issue of economy of scale.
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