Public Safety committee  I would like to provide assurances. Unfortunately, my membership and I are not the decision-makers when it comes to whether that inmate will be moved to a lower security level. I could suggest that it probably will not happen, given the sensationalism that surrounds this partic

Public Safety committee  To reiterate my opening comment, I think correctional officers need to be a bit more involved when it comes to the reports and the reports being taken into consideration through any parole hearings or assessments for decisions. Also, population management is something that the un

Public Safety committee  Perhaps I could make a comment, to start. When it comes down to the privacy concerns, I can honestly say that this is the first time in my 21 years I've ever publicly spoken an inmate's name. It's something we're taught when we join the service: The privacy concerns of the inma

Public Safety committee  I think you can understand that the media sensation that went along with this decision, and, of course, nobody being prepared for it, made it extremely difficult not only to receive the inmate but also.... Again, it left our members with questions, I am certain, in the sending in

Public Safety committee  No. I have not.

Public Safety committee  It's strange to me. I can't say I have heard that in my 21-year career as a correctional officer. I understand that the correctional investigator might be a witness on this panel. I think it would be a good question suited for that gentleman, but no.

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't say it's precedented. As I mentioned before, I think this particular inmate is a bit unprecedented in the way that he has been handled throughout the system and throughout his incarceration, to be honest. We don't have many inmates who mirror that exactly, so it's hard

Public Safety committee  I certainly wish I had the answer to your question on how to prevent escapes. These are each individual choices that are made by inmates. I don't know how we assess fluctuations from year to year based on different variables that are associated with institutions, to be quite fr

Public Safety committee  In fact, there was. I know I myself was actually involved in a refusal to work situation before Bill C-83, because there were subpopulations being created with, as I iterated earlier, what would normally have been classified as segregated inmates, mostly inmates who would have be

Public Safety committee  On the perimeter security...?

Public Safety committee  Each is controlled by a mobile patrol truck that is armed. In most maximum-security institutions, there are also tower officers—those positioned in towers. We would not have those in a medium-security institution. They are very similar in terms of perimeter security. It's the i

Public Safety committee  Well, I would like to say that I think the case of Mr. Bernardo is unique when it comes to his sentence overall. It's not very often that you see a case like his. Whether the integration of four months was an appropriate measure or it wasn't.... I think that judging by the amount

Public Safety committee  It is our hope that they are. This is again where we run into some problems when it comes to decisions to move into a lower classification. I'll be receiving feedback from our members, who say, “Listen, I wrote two reports on that inmate”—whatever the inmate's name might be—“and

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. It's not only when it comes to the custody rating scale but also when it comes to population management. Conversations that happen locally, regionally and nationally—

Public Safety committee  Sure. I'll try to be quick, because I know we're probably running out of time. A maximum-security institution, of course, is either a walled or a fenced institution that has an armed perimeter patrol, but there are also weapons on the inside. There are gallery officers who are p