Justice committee  Yes. It's unfortunate. We work with an individual who was released after a lengthy incarceration. They spent many of the years inside the penitentiary doing the best they could, helping others and doing the best they could from the place they were. When they were released, they

Justice committee  Our system is mandated towards successful rehabilitation and reintegration, so I think that we ought to equip ourselves as a society to provide that. When people are sanctioned through incarceration and then sanctioned again for the rest of their lives through prevention of the

Justice committee  We will often work with people who have never gone to school or have never been in social positions where they've had access to career development or social stability. We see people who want to contribute to society, want to succeed and want to be a part of the common good, but d

Justice committee  Completely.

Justice committee  Working together across tables is really important to bring in people's voices—the voice of everybody who's impacted—both through the law and through our programs and services. Right now, through mandatory minimum penalties, we have so many people across Canada who are kept and b

Justice committee  Thank you. I think the reality is devastating and one that many are not familiar with. We see very poor outcomes pre-, during and post-incarceration not only for indigenous, marginalized and gender-diverse people, but also for their communities. Certainly, the present system is

Justice committee  Unfortunately, there are almost none. Across the country, remand centres are notoriously deprived of rehabilitative services. They're structurally violent places where people are essentially kept in cages for most, if not all, of the day, and where the quality of food is very lo

Justice committee  Emilie, did you want to jump in?

Justice committee  It is something that we see, unfortunately. I don't mean to laugh at any of this context. It's devastating, because we see people who are transferred—especially right now—from the prairie regions with the highest overrepresentation of incarcerated people to the Atlantic region wh

Justice committee  Thank you. Part of our work is monitoring the conditions of confinement in the five prisons designated for women across the country. It is there we meet the people who have been harmed and continue to be harmed by existing legislation. The majority of these women and gender-dive