Correctional Investigator of Canada and Federal Ombudsman for Prisons, Howard Sapers, holds a news conference to release their final assessment of the Correctional Service of Canada's response to deaths in custody at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Sept. 8, 2010.
Diana Zlomislic Staff Reporter
The federal government poured $50 million into Canada’s prison system to deal with mentally ill offenders without a comprehensive plan to make sure it was properly spent, a watchdog report has found.
“Significant funds were advanced to the Correctional Service of Canada on the basis of much less detailed planning and reporting accountability than that generally demanded of the public,” according to the report by the Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada.
The result: a hodgepodge of poorly planned and unfinished programs scattered over a prison system strained by a growing number of inmates with mental disorders.
“We know that there’s a growing demand for mental health interventions,” correctional investigator Howard Sapers told the Star. “And we know if that demand is unmet, there will be a less safe environment in Canadian penitentiaries.”
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Here is the press release. Tom
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