Justice committee  I don't have that information.

Justice committee  And we focus a lot of our energy on preventing recruitment. It's more difficult, when someone comes in who is already a member of a criminal organization, to disaffiliate them. If they come in and we can prevent them from joining a gang...which does happen; there is recruitment i

Justice committee  We also put a major emphasis on our engagement with our partnerships. We partner with the community parole offices and with external organizations such as the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, various aboriginal organizations, and the John Howard Society. We partner very strongly with

Justice committee  Yes, we do offer red seal certifications. We have done programs in the past, tickets for food preparation, for forklift operation. CORCAN is a big part of our mandate to provide those vocational skills and training for our offenders.

Justice committee  I'm not sure. I don't have that information at hand, I'm sorry.

Justice committee  Starting with Pathways, in and of itself, we have a holistic healing approach. We have elders dedicated to that particular unit, elders' helpers, aboriginal liaison officers, and aboriginal correctional programs officers. We have nine aboriginal-specific programs we're running.

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

Justice committee  I don't have numbers in front of me right now. We can get you those numbers, but I do know, for example, this last fiscal year we had transfers to minimum security and transfers to healing lodge. We had 119 the previous year and we had 145 this year, so we continue to see success

Justice committee  Yes. As a service we track statistics for a certain amount of time post warrant expiry.