Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is important to recognize that it is a part of the rehabilitative process, the programming for some of the inmates and the fact that it provides them with an opportunity to develop some skills that produce some income when they get out of the correctional centre. It provides them with an opportunity to generate some income while they are in there to send back to their families to look after some of their basic needs. Many of them, unfortunately, do not have the opportunity to have income support from their home families when they are in the correctional centre. In that respect, it is an important issue for the inmates. In addition to that, they do use some of the payments sometimes for some of their fines that they have incurred as part of the sentence that they received, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.
Kelvin Ng on Question 287-13(4): Crafts Produced By Inmates
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 287-13(4): Crafts Produced By Inmates
Question 287-13(4): Crafts Produced By Inmates
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 10th, 1997
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
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