Public Safety committee  There's a national pharmacy that has a fairly comprehensive menu of drugs for a variety of reasons, so you have psychotropic medications for those who are dealing with mental illness, and you have a variety of other medications dealing with everything from anxiety to high blood p

Public Safety committee  There are analgesic medications, medications that are provided for sleep disorders or mood disorders, which may or may not be addictive, but they have a contraband value because of how they alter your mood or how they allow you to self-medicate so you're not experiencing incarcer

Public Safety committee  The 10-year change is about 5%, which is lower than some people expected it to be. In my opinion, most of that change is not new warrants of committal based on any kind of increase in crime but flows from policy changes that have to do with release. We've seen a stacking inside f

Public Safety committee  The Department of Public Safety, the ministry of indigenous affairs, and other federal departments share a lot of responsibility. The federal government's responsibility for indigenous Canadians is broad and deep. It's been made profoundly important with the commitments that the

Public Safety committee  Yes, for breakfast.

Public Safety committee  For me, it's always tone at the top. If you want to change culture, it's tone at the top and it's a commitment to principle-based decisions. Corrections is, at its heart, a human rights function. If you lose that perspective, then you lose that tone and things start to go astray.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Contraband drugs are a problem, but so is the diversion of legal drugs. Your specific question was, is the CSC administering illegal drugs? My answer was straightforward: it was no. You have a drug subculture within prisons. It makes some sense, when you think about it: the major

Public Safety committee  That gets transported, imported into the prison environment, and so contraband drugs come in in many ways. Staff bring in drugs. Contractors bring in drugs. Families sometimes bring in drugs.

Public Safety committee  I'll work in an answer.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, I can be brief and say yes. There would be more, but—

Public Safety committee  Sure. Really it's not difficult to describe. We follow a number of metrics when it comes to correctional outcomes, for example, the amount of time served before first release; the proportion who don't get out until statutory release or warrant expiry; those who are released condi

Public Safety committee  There's a host of reasons, I think, why we're seeing this disproportionate result. Some of it has to do with the structure of the criminal law itself: the increase in the number of mandatory minimums, for example; the decisions that are made at the start, first appearance or bail

Public Safety committee  I don't have a current picture of the capacity across the country. I can tell you that the programs are very much in flux for another reason. The Correctional Service of Canada has moved to what they call an integrated correctional program model. That program model presents some

Public Safety committee  Yes. Boy, those are two really big questions. The one that's not within my mandate is the one I'll answer first, which is about the off-ramps out of the criminal justice system. When there is an accused or a suspect who clearly is dealing with mental health issues, there's a var