Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for young offenders who are sentenced to custody through the courts, there has always been a range of options. One is if they're sentenced to the secure custody facility here in Yellowknife; it's available to house them. Typically what happens to offenders who are sentenced to secure custody, they go through that facility into an open custody facility and then move on into either a camp or a residential home. The goal is to try and integrate young offenders back into the community and move them as quickly as possible into a residential setting. What has happened is, with the numbers in custody over the last couple of years, we have a very limited number in open custody. Last week when I checked, we had six males in open custody, I believe, and with two facilities we couldn't justify keeping them both open. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Charles Dent on Question 383-15(3): Young Offenders Sentenced To Custody
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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