Public Accounts committee  We have two streams of correctional programs. If you picture it like building blocks, like Lego blocks, there is the engagement, as the commissioner was saying, and then we have moderate-intensity, high-intensity, and community programs. The aboriginal stream is 80% elder-assis

Public Accounts committee  Classify them in what way?

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we do have that data.

Public Accounts committee  I don't have them with me.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. For any offender who comes in with less than a high school education, that would be put on their correctional plan, and they would be offered educational upgrading to get to a high school level.

Public Accounts committee  The smallest one is the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, with 60, but the smallest of the mainstream facilities is Nova Institution in Truro, which has 99, I believe. The largest has 215.

Public Accounts committee  The custody rating scale has been validated for women on more than one occasion, but we recognize that it was a tool developed with primarily a male sample. Ideally, tools are developed for women from the ground up. In the past, we have attempted to add predictive accuracy to the

Public Accounts committee  I can't speak to whether studies have been done, certainly not with respect to federally sentenced women specifically. There might be studies on the effectiveness of healing lodges for men. I can look into that question, but I don't have the answer. I want to add that we have a

Public Accounts committee  We have a mother-child program, and we've really expanded on that. There was a residential component where, if the woman is eligible to participate, and it's deemed to be in the best interests of the child, the child can come and live with mom if she is classified as medium or mi

Status of Women committee  No, the practice hasn't been prohibited. That said, as Anne was saying, I know that our assistant commissioner of health services has been very engaged in trying to carve out those partnerships with provincial psychiatric hospitals, including on the west coast.

Status of Women committee  I'll give you something to think about. Anne referenced the triage we do, but the intent behind it is to identify everyone at intake who may have a cognitive impairment. Then there's a further, more in-depth assessment. It's not necessarily a diagnosis, although we have in the p

Status of Women committee  Yes. Right now, if there's an urgent need after hours, then we do have on-call service. We also have some partnerships with local hospitals, but of course having someone on site would be beneficial.

Status of Women committee  We don't have the specific data on traumatic brain injury. At intake we do a screening, so we're able to identify any men or women with cognitive impairment. We do follow-up assessments after that to determine the cause and course of action, but we don't have data we can point to

Status of Women committee  We have a number of local-level initiatives, so they vary depending on the site. In response to the Auditor General's report on the reintegration of women offenders, we have made a commitment to increase the ability for women to earn a living wage upon release. That will be both

Status of Women committee  Our institutions are all multi-level institutions, so actually it's minimum, medium, and maximum security. That said, the environment within the perimeter of the institution is a little different for maximum security versus medium and minimum. There are some differences with resp