Implementing The Life Line Concept: Report Of The Task Force On Long Term Offenders

Appendix E - Profile Of Long Term Offenders

Definitions:

Total Long Term Offenders: Includes all offenders serving life or indeterminate sentences plus those serving determinate aggregate sentences of ten (10) years or more

Life: Includes Life, Life Commuted, Life Minimum, Life Maximum

Indeterminate sentence: Includes Habitual Criminal, Dangerous Offender, Dangerous Sex Offender, Lieutenant Governor Warrant, Preventive Detention Order

Offender Current Status code in OMS was used to determine whether offender is in institution or community.

Deported offenders were eliminated from data reported.

Community: Supervised, Parole Suspended, Parole Suspended Unlawfully-At-Large

Institution: Incarcerated, Sentence Interrupted, Parole Revoked, Revoked Unlawfully-At-Large *, Bail*, Escape*

Security Classification: classification assigned to offender.

* These types of offender status were counted in institutional population, however, they together account for 120 offenders out of a total of 7,000 and do not influence the population breakdown.

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Note: Of the 7004 offender records, one was missing identification of the region.

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Note: Of the 179 women, there is one for whom the identification of region is not given.

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Note: Of the 122 offender records, one was missing identification of region.

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OFFENDERS IN THE COMMUNITY

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OFFENDERS IN INSTITUTIONS

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Note: Of the 95 offender records, one (1) was missing identification of the region.

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Note: Of the 68 offender records, one was missing indication of region.

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OFFENDERS IN INSTITUTIONS BY SECURITY LEVEL

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Note: Security level indication was missing for 15 offenders, 11 of whom are in Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women, which uses a different security classification system. Therefore, Pacific region will not be shown on any of the charts for security level for women.

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Note: Security level information was missing for 165 of the 4707 offenders.

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Note: Security level information was missing on 12 of 68 offenders, 10 of whom are in Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women.

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Note: Information on security level was missing for 51 of the 2338 male lifers incarcerated.

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Note: Of the 26 offender records, three were missing security level information

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Note: Information on security level was missing in 108 of the 2152 offender records.

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Responses to Selected Questions in the 1995 Inmate Survey

	Lifers %	Non-lifers %
Provincial incarceration	59	70
Previous federal incarceration	43	53
In administrative segregation during current sentence	23	19
In disciplinary segregation during current sentence	28	22
In protective custody during current sentence	17	15
Disciplinary charge in last 6 months	18	21
Have filed a grievance	72	48
Have filed 10 or more grievances	22	9
Have complained to Correctional Investigator	53	34
Have received at least one visit at this institution	81	70
Have had a PFV at this institution	44	24
Used drugs at least once at this institution	42	38
Currently waiting for a program listed in correctional plan	65	63
There are enough programs at this institution to meet my needs	31	35
I participate in programs to get out of jail	75	76
Proportion of inmates who ever participated in one or more of a list of 14 programs	25	20
Proportion of inmates who found the programs they participated in to be good or excellent	69	63
Proportion of inmates whose longest wait ever for a program was more than one year	48	29
Proportion of inmates who felt that if more money were available to CSC, it should be spent on programs, not improved inmate accommodation	54	44
Proportion of inmates who felt that programs should be offered early in sentence, not just before release	76	80