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For all that investment, however, the ombudsman states Canada is earning dubious returns, with the country posting inmate outcomes that are regressing in important areas.“We are spending an inordinate amount of money – $2.5-billion – and the performance is just not there,” Ivan Zinger told The Globe and Mail in an interview about the report.
Correctional Service Canada is planning to build 27 of the new units for men, and five for women, with annual staffing costs of $58-million. Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said the government investments are aimed at mental health and rehabilitation, helping to compensate for a decade of punishment-oriented policies under the previous government.“Better supports for mental health and other risk factors ultimately reduce the likelihood of reoffending when people are eventually released into the community, making us all safer,” he said.
The ultimate performance indicator for prison systems is recidivism, a measure of inmates who are reconvicted after two years.
Need to energise their brain Cells to figure out how to improve THIS.
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rexglacer Rehabilitation, meaning drug rehab, apprenticeship in trades, education and mental care. Incentives reduced sentence.
We have no money for hospitals or community healthcare but we can overhaul the Correctional System? If we invest up front in Addiction and MentalHealth we can incarcerate less. cndpoli