Justice committee  Good afternoon. l am Robert Bonnefoy, warden of Stony Mountain Institution, situated north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. I am here with Christer McLauchlan, security intelligence officer at Stony Mountain Institution, and Tim Van der Hoek, former security intelligence officer at Stony

Justice committee  I believe that's the case, yes.

Justice committee  I'll try to address all your questions. With regard to what gangs originated in Manitoba and how they spread, that's something off the top of my head I can't answer, but we can get you that technical data at our earliest opportunity. In terms of how do we solve the problem of

Justice committee  Part of what we do--I'm a warden of a medium-security facility--is that as we gather information.... All criminal organizations have a risk inherent in our facilities. We assess risk. When some of the offenders are assessed as maximum security, they will be transferred to a penit

Justice committee  Yes, sometimes we will transfer an offender to the SHU, the special handling unit, because his risk can't be managed safely or effectively in a maximum security unit. That's one of the reasons we may transfer an individual from Manitoba to Quebec. Does that answer your question

Justice committee  No, we do not have a maximum security facility in Manitoba.

Justice committee  In addition to that.... Go ahead, Tim.

Justice committee  I guess our gang populations mirror many of the gang populations in the community. So if we have a lot of street gang members of various ethnic origins in the community, offenders are often already affiliated with a gang prior to their incarceration. So we will try to manage thos

Justice committee  Yes, we have had staff threatened, but we have an employee protection protocol and we have policy to help our staff to understand what to do in the event that they're threatened.

Justice committee  I'm not aware of anything outside of the institution.

Justice committee  Within the institution?

Justice committee  Yes, if it warrants criminal charges. We work very closely with our local RCMP detachment.

Justice committee  I don't have an exact date for you. We started Pathways approximately 10 years ago.

Justice committee  We do have a monitoring tool, and it has been very successful. It is one of our key tools to give offenders an opportunity to disaffiliate from street gangs--

Justice committee  It is geared towards the aboriginal community. It's based on an aboriginal holistic model, but other offenders who are not aboriginal are able and welcome to participate in the programming and the initiative as well. It's been effective for aboriginal offenders and non-aboriginal