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

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

Public Safety committee  Pardon me?

Public Safety committee  Would you like me to answer you with respect to recidivism?

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

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.

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

Public Safety committee  Excuse me.

Public Safety committee  No problem.

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.

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

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

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

Public Safety committee  Fine. Thank you, sir.

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