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Public Safety committee If you don't mind, Mr. Chair, I'll try to clarify some of those numbers. The minister's comments were in the right zone; I just want to make sure that the context was clear. I'll talk about the urinalysis testing first. The minister was talking about the testing we do. On a mont
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee It could be any nationally recognized program. What will happen, as I mentioned earlier, is that every offender who comes through our door right at the time of admission has a correctional plan. That correctional plan, based on a number of evidence-based assessment tools, will de
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee There's always the debate around incentives and disincentives and what works or what doesn't work. When I look over the last five years, in terms of the kinds of measures we've put in place coupled with the treatment programs, and particularly offenders who are going out into t
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee Yes. If you don't mind, I'll actually go back in time. This coming week it will be 37 years ago that I first started working in a penitentiary. In those days when I started as a correctional officer the kinds of tools that were available to us were pretty limited. It was basicall
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee What we see particularly with individuals who come into the federal system is that they've gone through the provincial system a number of times before they end up coming our way. Given that our provincial and territorial colleagues, unfortunately, do not have the same suite of pr
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee Thank you, Minister. We do have waiting lists for various programs. We prioritize the offenders' participation in programs depending on their eligibility dates for potentially day parole, full parole, and statutory release. Ideally those who have a release coming sooner than som
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee We offer intensity levels in our programs. A high intensity level program can be as long as 12 weeks. A moderate intensity program is from 8 to 10 weeks. In addition to that initial program we have maintenance programs. One of the things we're always concerned about is that we co
January 27th, 2015Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee We have in place a series of approaches to deal with aging offenders. As you can appreciate, individuals who stay with us for long periods of time, who are as old as I am or older, come with a significant number of health care issues. One of the challenges for us is around pall
December 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee We've put in place a series of initiatives to address the recommendations of the Correctional Investigator as brought forward. A lot of that has been focused on responding to the needs of self-harming women. That's where a lot of our time, energy, and reallocated resources have
December 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee Thank you for the question. As of today, the incarcerated population is 14,983 offenders in 43 penitentiaries. When we talk about those significant overestimates that were done back in early 2008 based on 2005 data, the estimates had put projections up to 18,000 inmates. Those h
December 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Justice committee As an organization, we're going to be proactive in that regard. Currently, we have just over 7,700 registered victims in relation to about 4,000 offenders. Through our victim service officers, we have been advising them of the opportunities for victim-offender mediation for resto
October 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Justice committee Sure. Thank you. I have just a couple of points to add. We have victims who come into our institutions now to attend parole board hearings. One of the things we're very conscious of is their safety and security while they're in the institution. We have a good track record aroun
October 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee It is yes, and if we get another opportunity I'd be glad to give you some of those details.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee Thank you for the question. I think there's some really good information to share. As was pointed out, the farms were closed and our research did not suggest that it was providing any significant changes in terms of issues around recidivism. One of the things we have been pursui
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Safety committee Thanks again for the question. We've been monitoring the whole issue of double-bunking very closely, particularly as it relates to both the modest increase in the population and the impact as a result of us closing three facilities: Kingston Penitentiary, the Regional Treatment
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Don Head