I am happy you shared that about the strategy in Canada, piggy momma! That's great that you have done a lot of research into that system to understand its pros and cons. I am sure a perfect system is near impossible, but better and better is what needs to be aimed for.

In the book "Crazy" I mentioned, Pete Earley also described how the seriously mentally ill prisoners in the Miami prison he was given access to study were often put in particularly undesirable cells and were not allowed some of the same privileges as prisoners without mental illnesses. It is known that prison conditions and rehabilitation programs (or lack of) vary a lot in the US, especially since many are privatized. Are any prisons in Canada privately owned and operated? Or are they all provincial or federal types?