Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Has the department studied diversion techniques in the sense of their success rates? What I’m talking about is how people may reoffend. In other words, if we’ve given people an opportunity to not go to jail, which in certain circumstances makes complete sense. In other cases, they need to go to jail because of the balance of what they’ve been charged and found guilty of. Has the department found any diversion techniques that make sense? Because if our present population, on average, is 88 percent, that tells me it’s significantly high, and I’m trying to understand how this department is working to get this number down and to be reflective, truly, of what’s considered reasonable and representative of the population, not 88 percent, which is significantly high.
Robert Hawkins on Question 206-17(4): Aboriginal Prison Populations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Question 206-17(4): Aboriginal Prison Populations
Oral Questions
March 6th, 2013
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