Public Safety committee  Are you saying we support a needle exchange?

Public Safety committee  Good morning. My name is Kevin Grabowsky, and I'm the national president for the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers. I am a correctional officer, and have been for 36 years now. When we look at this bill, one of our biggest problems is that we don't know how we see it oper

Public Safety committee  It comes from intelligence from inside the prison, from outside the prison, gathered through mail, through telephone conversations, through interactions with staff. It's his behaviour in the jail, it's who he.... It's an intelligence gathering that's put forward, but it's not som

Public Safety committee  The point is I'm saying that we know wardens are facing these pressures; the service is facing these pressures. In that regard, making a decision on a first- or a second-degree murderer's ETA is one pressure we feel this bill takes away from them, that it won't be there. I'm not

Public Safety committee  Yes, sir.

Public Safety committee  Yes. To my understanding, yes, they were.

Public Safety committee  Somebody else can accompany the inmate.

Public Safety committee  That's correct. Currently that's what the CCRA allows.

Public Safety committee  Currently for a minimum security level inmate, we are asking that there be two correctional officers in a secured vehicle.

Public Safety committee  We see that every day with escorts from minimum security.

Public Safety committee  There are escorted temporary absences occurring every day from minimum security. Seeing as they are all inmates for first- or second-degree murder, that varies. But every day there are single or lone correctional officers in unsecured vehicles escorting inmates all across the cou

Public Safety committee  Currently we've been negotiating, and have negotiated, with the employer that for maximum and medium security inmates, when they are in that security level, there are two officers, and they are armed. For our minimum security level, there is no ratio, so one officer could be taki

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  No. Certainly the correctional officers in the units work with the inmates every day. They do reports. They do submissions. They do case work records. They do assessment for decision reports that go before an offender management board, which is set by the warden and the parole of

Public Safety committee  Yes, sir.