Justice committee  I have personally not heard of any of those situations. I did understand from a colleague that this may have been a concern in one particular area in British Columbia, but to my knowledge, not that we've been made aware of.

Justice committee  I can speak to the numbers in my district. I think I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks that we have 92 gang-affiliated offenders. Of that number, 64 of them are in aboriginal or Asian gangs. The remaining numbers are small. For example, for Hells Angels under parole supe

Justice committee  I do. It's actually something I'm really passionate about. You're not wrong on this. I think that for quite a long time we did have a disconnect between the institutional side of the business and the parole and supervision side. We've tried to make some inroads in that regard.

Justice committee  There's not much time, but I wanted to say that I absolutely agree with what you said about how we may be underutilizing our chaplains. I'm proud that we now include our elders as part of our chaplaincy programs. It's an incredibly important thing. But what you said that's most

Justice committee  Again, I'll start, and I'll talk about my experience, although I'm by no means the expert here. The two on my right are certainly more expert in terms of the actual characteristics. But when you were describing the ethnic gangs, I did hear some similar words about things that I

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Justice committee  Just to add to the question of how we keep them safe, I'll start and then let Hugo finish. It's an important question. Thank you for asking it. For me, a lot of it is about information sharing and knowledge. My staff need to be aware of the situations that these fellows can be f

Justice committee  Yes, very much so. We work really closely with the offenders right from the beginning when they're incarcerated. I have a person who works full-time as an employment coordinator. She does a market analysis to determine what kind of work is required out there. Then we link that to

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  That's a complicated question. If you are asking me about what you can do to help us, what we need the help in is to have better knowledge and understanding of the differences among gang members. You talked a lot about gangs being controlled by all of those things you mentioned

Justice committee  Maybe I'll start with some of the specific ones. I talked about the more static interventions. I could ask Mr. Foss to talk a little bit more with respect to the program interventions. I think you might be referring to my opening comments about the resources we've put toward sec

Justice committee  It was my colleague, Hugo, who mentioned the 79%, but thank you for letting me speak to it. For me, when you ask about resources, I think what we need to do as a government agency is work very hard to keep those partnerships, because we realize that by the time they come to feder

Justice committee  Good morning. My name is Jan Fox. I'm the district director for Alberta/Northwest Territories district parole office in the prairies region. In this capacity, I'm responsible for the supervision of 1,126 offenders on conditional release, statutory release, and long-term supervisi

Justice committee  All right. On behalf of the Correctional Service of Canada, I thank you very much for the invitation to appear before you today. I'm going to highlight some of the challenges that are unique to the prairie region and, in particular, to my district. I would like to focus on the