Public Safety committee  We're not an abolitionist organization. We agree that at certain points custodial sentences are necessary for certain offenders. If your objective is protecting the public over the long run, you're better off with more community-based sentences as a way of holding people accounta

Public Safety committee  Are you saying it's a chicken and egg sort of thing?

Public Safety committee  I can, but you might want to hear from John, who actually works in the field.

Public Safety committee  I just want to mention that if the grounds for detention are that the person is a flight risk and you could compensate for that risk with the bracelet, that might be one of the cases in which you'd want to have an evaluated project. You're not using it as part of the corrections

Public Safety committee  I think you'd need to watch the widening of the net. I mean, you're talking about a very narrow subset of people who are detained in custody. It might be very interesting to see if that actually does reduce your pre-trial detention numbers. I'm a strong advocate of trying to re

Public Safety committee  I would think it's worth testing. I don't know whether it would work or not, but it isn't burdened with the corrections problems that we see with an overreliance on electronic monitoring in the corrections area. You're trying to get people to a deportation hearing and you don't w

Public Safety committee  I have a few comments to make.

Public Safety committee  I didn't have anything to distribute to the translators.

Public Safety committee  I would like to reiterate that the John Howard Society of Canada, on whose behalf I'm pleased to be here today, echoes many of the concerns that Kim has raised about the need to have an effective, timely grievance process. We also give quite a bit of credit to Correctional Servi

Public Safety committee  I'm happy to speak about the equality of prisoners. For a grievance process to be effective, there are risks to a grievance process if it is abused. The challenge is determining what is abuse and what is fair use. In a prison system that can be a very challenging thing to do, be

Public Safety committee  Yes, I am.

Public Safety committee  I'm not that familiar with civil law, but I would assume there are measures against it, once having defended a set of—

Public Safety committee  I think it's likely to be a variety of people. One of the things the Correctional Investigator has pointed out is that offenders who are better able to write, more literate, better educated, tend to file more grievances on behalf of some of the other inmates who have difficulty d

Public Safety committee  Let me give you an example. Let's say that you were an insulin-dependent diabetic and you did not get your insulin in time every day, and you grieved once and they said “Fine, we'll try to make it better”, but the next day it wasn't any better, and you still didn't get your insul

Public Safety committee  No.