Public Safety committee  Yes, I know.

Public Safety committee  Up until that point of supervision in the community, it would fall within that domain. Once the warrant expiry date hits, there is no jurisdiction for us. They have satisfied the court sentence and become citizens without an offender label. If something occurs after that, it woul

Public Safety committee  I'm trying to sort it through. My experience tells me that it's likely no. Often, when they're looking at elements, they're not doing it to make the service better. Sometimes that is very much the outcome of what you've talked about. But speaking intuitively from my experience, I

Public Safety committee  I think the numbers of inmates who have complete competency issues, who are incapable of making competent decisions are very few. These are often cases who—

Public Safety committee  That's right, for those who are deemed incompetent and unable to make the decisions, we use the Mental Health Act for the formulations of decisions to be made on their behalf. Often these are acute cases. Sometimes, it could be through a decompensation, a change in medication, su

Public Safety committee  Again, I was really referring to cases of decompensation, where they go through the mental health system. In those cases, decisions would be made by—I forgot what they call the term—their guardians. Everything is a matter timing. If the award happened two months before, when they

Public Safety committee  It's hard to tell objectively. But here's one point for your thinking in the committee: inmates, when they are released, will spend a period of time under supervision—generally a third of them. They're still under our control until the warrant expires. It seems that most continue

Public Safety committee  If you're referring to mental health considerations, I could say a couple of things there. We do provide psychological services, with different levels of intervention across the country at five regional treatment centres that are accredited mental health facilities, staffed by

Public Safety committee  I would say that again we have to look at each case individually. With some inmates, if there was a financial award, you might have to have mechanisms put in place for their complete understanding, but these are the extreme levels of inmates.

Public Safety committee  Just to make a small correction, it's 1,136 for fines.

Public Safety committee  And there are 725 for surcharges.

Public Safety committee  We can't compel; we can only encourage and motivate.

Public Safety committee  We would have an awareness.

Public Safety committee  No, I'm sorry, I don't. Just to make sure it's not completely misunderstood: inmates can access their money. There are two accounts. I was referring to the savings account, where four times a year money can be brought down for expenditures. There's also a current account where,

Public Safety committee  What I don't have is whether there are ones on there that have satisfied the orders that have come on. It would be really difficult for me to make a comment on that specifically.