Status of Women committee  I have spoken to the women's representative from Grand Valley Institution and there are incidents of inmates exposing themselves to male officers and to female officers. It happens the same in a male environment as well. Our male officers are subjected to that as well sometimes.

Status of Women committee  If there are others who would like to receive a formal brief of our recommendations, we're willing to put something together as well and forward that on. Thank you so much.

Status of Women committee  It's an independent chairperson who makes that decision, obviously. Some inmates, when they expose themselves to officers, are sent to segregation. From there they should be assessed by a psychological team, and there may be treatment to follow. It's not necessarily a punishmen

Status of Women committee  At Kingston Penitentiary we're almost 300 officers. At this point I don't know the exact numbers, but we're almost 50-50. We are almost half.

Status of Women committee  When I started at Kingston Penitentiary 10 years ago, we were maybe 20 female officers.

Status of Women committee  Yes. It has grown consistently.

Status of Women committee  When I speak to women who are thinking of going into corrections.... It's not for everybody; obviously there are different risks involved. I try to make them aware of things I may see, things I've encountered. You want to give them a good, realistic look at what it is like inside

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes.

Status of Women committee  It's probably slightly higher, but there is a line you don't cross, and a lot of the women correctional officers are very good at drawing that line with male officers. It's a younger generation coming in, and the male officers are very aware of the zero tolerance for sexual haras

Status of Women committee  I think maybe some of those stats were for inmate behaviour—disrespect to an officer. There are a lot of charges. There are a lot more men who work in the service than women as well. The numbers are higher. And when you put a complaint in on an inmate for disrespect, that is hara

Status of Women committee  There definitely needs to be a change in policy, because that's exactly it. The inmates, whenever they conduct themselves in an inappropriate way, don't see any recourse. There's no....

Status of Women committee  They're already there. They'll tell you, “Go ahead and charge me”. So there needs to be more appropriate.... We need to reflect 2013, where there's zero tolerance for this sort of behaviour. And it's not there.

Status of Women committee  Changes on the offence, on the charge offence.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes. We need something that directly says “sexual harassment, inappropriate behaviour, inmates posting explicit pictures on their cell walls”. We need something that is more specific and in line with that.