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Public Safety committee No, actually, I don't. I'm more inside, dealing with that. There can always be more, in Whitehorse anyway. There's not enough help for them on the outside.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee Double-bunking had nothing to do with it.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee It will be very positive.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee At the moment we are full, and that's why this new facility is being built. We've got, I think, a $67 million facility that's just being built. We should be moving into it this spring. At that point, it should be single bunking.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee We are in a dorm situation where everything is double bunked. We've got 26--
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee That was a central cell block. It wasn't full, but, yes, there were four people in that one cell.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee No, not at all.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee Yes, I would agree with that; it sounds pretty close to right on. Even in Whitehorse—the small area that we are—that's pretty accurate.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee We need a lot more training on addictions, more of the social aspect of dealing with these, to be more educated on everything that surrounds the addiction and how it would help us to help them.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee Something along those lines, yes.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee There are courses, but there can always be a lot more.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee Yes, I did go back working the floor for about seven months after my injury. That was before knee surgery. I had a lot of troubles in those seven months. A lot of the feedback from inmates was good. They did not like what happened. They said they wanted us to lock them in a room
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee Yes, I think it did. There are other inmates in that cell block, and there was one who was not drinking locked in the cell with them. He was scared. He was in the corner trying to stay out of everything when it was all going on. Word spreads fast in a correctional centre. They we
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel
Public Safety committee As a front-line staff member, I can say we spend a lot of time with the inmates. It needs to be drug free. It has to go right out of the system in order for them to make the proper choices, move forward with healing, and create a safe environment. There are a lot of pressures in
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Tony Van De Mortel