Public Safety committee  No, I'm sorry. I can certainly provide that information to the committee. I know we're on a very tight timeframe. I don't have it right before me, but I can certainly submit it to the committee.

Public Safety committee  It depends on the nature of the complaint. After it's filed in the complaint process, I get that docket in terms of what work's been done up to that point. Depending on what's said in the grievance as it proceeds to the next step, it can certainly entail.... Again, I'll referenc

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  Excellent.

Public Safety committee  Well, quite frankly, that's the initial purpose of the investigation. As the docket comes in, if it's related to health care issues, for example, and they're indicating that they've put down to see the doctor and they haven't been able to see the doctor in a month's time or the l

Public Safety committee  No, I believe that the purpose of the investigation is to determine, at that point, whether there's merit. That's how we form our response: is there merit to it?

Public Safety committee  If there's merit, we will uphold it, or uphold it in part. If there's not....

Public Safety committee  I actually...you know, it's the initial investigation where there's the investment in resources. We would treat everybody as having merit initially. What we find is that after numerous investigations—I referred to three of them in my statement—and often in cases of tens or twenti

Public Safety committee  Okay. Quite frankly, Melinda oftentimes puts the dockets together, and I know she's probably anxious to speak. But I will say that some of those files can get incredibly large. The problem in regard to the docket is that we have to put together prior investigations, because often

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I'll speak, if I can, to the eight complaints of harassment submitted by one inmate, with regard to which I brought in the external review group. Those complaints create a lot of anxiety for these individuals. They see personnel come from national headquarters and reg

Public Safety committee  It's an excellent question. I don't have any quantitative statistics to support what I'm about to say. I'm sorry. Does a person who is impacted and has increased stress use their leave? Will they use sick leave or have an increase in sick leave? Sure. They certainly have that

Public Safety committee  Yes. Again, I can speak to my institution, but I have a population where 50%-plus routinely use mental health services and have some kind of diagnosis related to mental health concerns. Truly, of my complaints and grievances, there is a group generated by persons who suffer fro

Public Safety committee  It could if we saw the nature of the complaint and reviewed it. It doesn't apply, I can say, to KP's current three that we're referring to. You know, it certainly could be a heads-up if we were to receive a complaint or a grievance that seemed out of the usual or.... I can tell

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Again, while I am not responsible for developing national policy, I certainly have given it some thought. I know I keep referencing, and I have referenced, the idea of the motivation-based intervention strategies as well as correctional programs in terms of cognitive

Public Safety committee  I think, quite frankly, it would help, because if I have an increased number of general population inmates, the likelihood of them being vexatious or frivolous grievers is statistically low based on what we know of these individuals. I think the absence of it could be bad in the