Public Safety committee  No, sir. I actually went to school and did a year of mental health after I was released, so I could fully understand and rehabilitate myself. Prison did nothing. I learned how to survive in there, but that's it.

Public Safety committee  There was a pilot project.

Public Safety committee  My definition of meaningful contact from CSC, is that what you're asking? The meaningful human contact that I got was all through a food slot, and it's not meaningful at all. For your extra hours out, you're still alone in a cell. As CAEFS, we'd like to see meaningful human conta

Public Safety committee  If implemented they would be. However, in the women's population, just in general pop, sometimes you're waiting months and months for programs, so I just don't know how they're going to all of a sudden allocate all these programs to the special unit when you have the women in gen

Public Safety committee  I just want to touch on the fact that there are actually lots of women inside who are not articulate enough to reach out for help when they need it, so they'll just deny that help. That's a form of self-harm in a way, that they don't ask for the help, that they sit in there, that

Public Safety committee  About the independent oversight, I think that's a huge thing that was overlooked on this. Without an independent party, how can Canadians and anybody really be sure that the officials are following the law and not misusing their discretion? As I touched on a little earlier, the

Public Safety committee  Okay. I'll really speed here. My name is Alia Pierini. Thank you, guys, for having me here today. As Savannah mentioned, I am a regional advocate out in British Columbia, where I meet with the women out there, and I'm also a woman with five years' lived experience inside the Fra

Public Safety committee  That's okay. I'm here for questions.

Public Safety committee  No problem.