Madam Chair, a plan is a cooperative plan put in place with the inmate and the case worker within the facility who has had a history with that particular inmate, as well as probation, whether it be regional or local. They develop a plan together to reintegrate the person back into their home community or whichever community they will end up in, based on their individual needs and programming that they need, where programming is available.
The probation officers have a requirement to meet and discuss case plans with their clients on a regular basis. Every one of them would be different, based on the individual themselves and the level of monitoring that they would need. Every reintegration plan would look different. It’s based on individual needs, risk, and risk of reoffending and what supports they need outside.
At the same time, we are excited by some of the possibilities that have come to us over the last while. In particular, Colville Lake, by way of an example, has approached us and they are interested in working with us to develop a program to help inmates reintegrate into their community specifically. We are still in the early steps and process is there, but we have seen Colville Lake do some really creative things with one of their local citizens who has returned from one of the facilities. They really went way out and took a step beyond to find ways to help them integrate back into the community. We’re excited by what is happening there and we’re really looking forward to coming up with a form of plan. Once we’ve had that in place for a while, it is something that we would be really interested in, assuming it works. I would like to put that proviso in there, we want to make sure it works. We would be really interested in working with other communities, but we see significant potential. The community is going to take some responsibility. The inmates are going to have to take some responsibility. We have probation officers available. You’re right; they’re not in every
community, but they have regular reporting, whether it be by phone or whether they travel into communities. So some interesting things happening here.