Public Safety committee  Every time.

Public Safety committee  Well, first of all, I'll talk about what we're hearing women say. I'm not going to say a lot of the words that some women say. The majority of the women we have interviewed have been at the federal level. They all say that none of their mental health needs were met in prison. They say they were disrespected.

Public Safety committee  I would definitely be approaching corrections more like what Brenda Tole was talking about. I personally have seen a difference. There are nine members I work with who were all incarcerated at the same time in the institution that Brenda Tole was running. We're all doing well. We're all employed.

Public Safety committee  They were all provincial, yes.

Public Safety committee  I think that if they would've let me out of segregation, I would've had the opportunity to go out and try to access the programs. I tried to access programs. After I was let out of segregation the first time, I've never been back. I had the ability to be able to access those things.

Public Safety committee  It was one time.

Public Safety committee  Yes. For the majority of the time that I was in prison, I was in maximum security and I was segregated for drug withdrawal. It was only the last time, when they moved me to Alouette, that I was allowed out from segregation.

Public Safety committee  I'm just going to read my bio. I am a Cree first nations woman. I was first incarcerated at the age of 20 and returned to prison 30 times over the next five years. In my most recent incarceration I spent six months inside of Alouette Correctional Centre for Women. Previous to that, I had spent time in Surrey Pretrial and Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women, as I suffered from a severe heroin addiction for many years and lived on the streets of Vancouver's east side.