Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have to pass this one off, but I'll say that the current numbers are reflective to, I think, a great extent of the COVID-19 situation and the fact that, you know, both corrections, and the courts especially, made the conscious effort to try and reduce the number of inmates. Whether or not those numbers go back up is yet to be seen, but I think that we have seen the numbers stay low and we haven't seen any sort of repercussions in the communities. So I think it's promising and, hopefully, we can keep these numbers down and people don't see a need to keep people incarcerated if it's not necessarily required. But I can ask the deputy minister to provide some more information about year over year trends. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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