Public Safety committee  An inmate, for example, could have a human rights complaint and receive a monetary award from a department that way. There could be claims against CSC, but you wanted a response more in terms of the ones outside the other department here.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I was trying to make the distinction that in cases where a fine has been imposed by courts, we would receive that through the system. Monetary awards that might be awarded from outside, even from the government, we would generally not be made aware of—and at this point in ti

Public Safety committee  The offender management system is our own internal system that we use for managing information on offenders. For example, if we receive from the courts...and I'll talk about the payments that are due that could be contained in the documentation that comes to us. There could be a

Public Safety committee  They wouldn't in its purest form, unless the inmate were willing to do that.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon to all members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss private member's Bill C-350. I would like to introduce Ms. Alexandra Budgell from the Department of Justice, who is here with me t

Public Safety committee  Yes. Our general measure that we assess through intake is that close to 80% of our offenders report an association with substance abuse, and in close to 50% we can draw a parallel between substance abuse and their actual criminal activity that got them in there.

Public Safety committee  It has to be through voluntary consent. That would require legislative changes for us to require, on demand, a blood sample. Just to make sure I haven't confused anyone, the random piece I was mentioning would be for those whose name just happens to show up on the list for rando

Public Safety committee  I don't have an associated number with the numbers that actually apply for pardon. In fact, for the vast majority of our inmates we want employment immediately upon release. Whatever the pardon period, if it's not one day, it will affect that.

Public Safety committee  If the person is applying for a pardon—and it's going to take two years, of course—yes, it would be longer than one year.

Public Safety committee  Yes. There's no legislation in place that allows us to do that mandatorily.

Public Safety committee  I wish we had more time.

Public Safety committee  Okay. I'd just say that it's a phenomenon that mirrors itself in the community at large. Again, the only thing I could say to that is our approach looks to stop it from getting in, and to look at dealing with those who are motivated and have an interest to change their behaviour

Public Safety committee  Bleach is used in this example. If an inmate had come in contact with a needle and wanted to use a needle for injection purposes that we would not know about, he would use bleach to clean the needle.

Public Safety committee  I think most of the offenders who come to us have lived high-risk types of lifestyles in the past, and I think we just get a higher rate of those particular individuals coming into our environment at intake.

Public Safety committee  A number of years back there had been deliberations made on looking at this from a program perspective. Consultations had taken place with public health agencies. Consultations had taken place with our labour groups. Consultations had taken place with medical communities. At that