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Recommendation 28:
We recommend that federal and provincial prisoners with high mental health needs that cannot be met within institutions be transferred to community-based mental health services. We recommend that such transfers be used when appropriate for women prisoners to ensure that they receive the care they need close to home communities.
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Recommendation 27:
We recommend that the Correctional Service of Canada and BC Corrections establish specialized mental health therapeutic centres in cities that have universities with medical and psychological programs, and develop partnerships with them in order to ensure that mental health programs are in line with current best practices, and that these centres do not face difficulties with recruitment and retention of quality professional staff. Mental health professionals in these centres should have oversight of the mental health units at each institution.
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Recommendation 26:
We recommend that the federal government amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Regulations by removing the requirement that prisoners “requiring a high degree of supervision and control within the penitentiary” must be placed in maximum security. The regulation should instead provide that prisoners who require a high degree of supervision and control within the penitentiary, due to mental health problems, be placed in specialized mental health units that are able to meet their unique mental health needs.
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Recommendation 26:
We recommend a legislative amendment to make it clear that health care considerations under s 87(a) of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act take priority over the criteria for placement in SIU.
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Recommendation 25:
We recommend that prisoners in specialized mental health units be offered at least 10 hours of out-of-cell therapeutic time per week, including opportunities for individual therapy. If refusal rates climb above 25 percent, additional individual therapy opportunities should be offered to maintain refusal rates below 25 percent.
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Recommendation 24:
We recommend that specialized mental health units not be considered transitional units, but that prisoners be permitted to stay in these units as long as they are benefiting from a therapeutic environment.
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Recommendation 23:
We recommend that specialized mental health units adopt a policy and philosophy to work with prisoners despite non-compliance or resistance to therapy.
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Recommendation 22:
We recommend that specialized therapeutic units be developed at each federal and provincial prison to address the unique needs of prisoners with mental health needs, as defined above. These units should be adequately funded so that they can be staffed with mental health professionals including nurses, social workers, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists as appropriate.
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Recommendation 21:
We recommend that the definition of prisoners with mental health needs be broad and inclusive of prisoners with a spectrum of psychiatric and non-psychiatric needs, including developmental disabilities, brain injuries, depression, anxiety, insomnia, learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, antisocial or borderline personality disorders, and prisoners who would benefit from trauma counselling. The definition of mental health needs should include prisoners who, regardless of diagnosis, demonstrate significant functional impairment within the correctional environment.
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Recommendation 20:
We recommend that Canada and British Columbia fund the Correctional Service of Canada and BC Corrections sufficiently to provide at least half of the beds in each prison as therapeutic living units, on an ongoing basis. Legislation should specify that the number of therapeutic beds available must be sufficient to meet the mental health needs of the number of prisoners who are identified as having mental health needs.
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