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Public Safety committee In the case at hand, it's rare, but it's not a first. Whether you're an inmate or a person who frequents massage parlours and prostitutes or any person here in the room, this constitutes a criminal act. It's very simple. This issue doesn't concern an inmate any more than it conc
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Yes. Fortunately, they don't happen often. As I said earlier, the Correctional Service released a report that I signed. On average, just over eight inmates a year commit murder while on parole in the community. I've given some examples, and you can look up the information in t
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Pardon me?
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Would you like me to answer you with respect to recidivism?
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee We could talk about recidivism for hours. Each year in Canada, there are on average over 630,000 sexual assaults, according to Statistics Canada, which conducted the general social survey on victimization. There aren't 630,000 inmates in prison for sexual assault. The sex offend
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee In my view, only an external and completely independent investigation involving access to all the case files can work. Personally, as a professional, I won't rely on what journalists say. I need to see how the case was managed and how the events unfolded.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Mr. McKay will reprimand me for answering that question. I'm likely to run out of time. We could talk about this for hours. I've written extensive research articles on this issue. It's an industry, a business. The programs work if the person wants them to work. You can have the
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Excuse me.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee No problem.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee At one point, there were four members for every murder case. It was very simple. The number then dropped to three members for budget reasons. Today, many hearings are conducted by teleconference. There's no longer even any contact. There's nothing left. It has come down to this.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Mr. Shipley, when I speak of danger, I'm talking about serious cases serving long prison sentences. I have no objection to federal inmates serving shorter sentences being mixed with provincial inmates. The risk is that inmates labelled as serious cases—these people have generally
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Thank you, Mr. Harris. I said it earlier in my preamble. There's a shortage of staff. Quadruple the federal parole officers in the community and have them meet with inmates in provincial halfway houses. There is a lack of time, a lack of staff. If this inmate had been placed in
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee It doesn't relate to Mr. Harris' question. What I just wanted to say, and I'll come back to this because it's very important, is that there are people who are killed by supervised inmates in the community. Earlier I was talking about Celia Ruygrok, a case which led to a commissi
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee Fine. Thank you, sir.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon
Public Safety committee No. Community correctional centres, which are under federal jurisdiction, have federal staff, i.e., federal parole officers. They are highly structured halfway houses with curfews. Their specialty is to work with sex offenders, organized crime members, and people who require clos
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Philippe Bensimon