The management protocol is comparable, I think, to the secure units for men. It's a sort of status within corrections, and it's used as a punitive measure against women who are considered a threat or are consistently acting out. It's a most extreme form of segregation. There's no access to programming and little access to spiritual services when a woman is put on the management protocol. She has to actually work her way off it. I don't carry statistics in my head, but I actually just finished writing a report on aboriginal women in federal corrections. Not a lot of women have been on it, but I think it was in March 2009 that three out of four women on it were aboriginal, or something like that. Not very many women have been able to work themselves off it.
Three out of four women being aboriginal is a shocking number. Aboriginal women, right now, are one in three of federal female offenders, but, still, the three in four statistic, I think, is an indicator of a system not meeting their needs, at the least, if not perhaps systemic discrimination.