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PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1978, WH-ITBY [FREE PRESS Province plans to eXpjtJd commun ity work programn KNIGTS F COLUMBUS TV BING CABLÉ CHANNEL 10 "4 BIG GAMES EVERY W'EDNESDAY STARTING'SEPTEMBER 20TH 6:030 P.M. UP TO $375.OO ,IN PRIZES 3 for $1.OO (-so EAîCi), BINGO CARLPS AVAILABLE AT: Bailey Pharmacy Checkers Variety & Jury & Loveil Drug Brock St. S., Safeway Centre Hardware - Towne Plaza, 7-601 Dundas St. W. Store - Whitby Plaza, 317 Brock St. S., Interested merchants & I or viewers eail Mike Karas 728-5138 Cunt'd from P. 1 lie pointed out that the succ'ess of the community w ork programs depends very much on the support of the local communîties where they are taking plàce.' Mr. Drea comrnented briefly on, the problems facing the correctional system in Ontario. Of the 6,000 prisoners presently in jail, 2,000 are there because the couirt ordered' them there on remands, and they are stili awaiting trial. "The courts remnand people to our qustody and wve have no control over this,- said Mr. DPea. '0vercrowd- ing and pressure cornes f rom remand prisoners.", Mr. Drea pointed out that remand prisoners are stili innocent and awaiting trial, and theref ore are flot eligible for the community work progra ms. Trials are longer because the crimes are more complex, he'sai d, explaining that it can take more than a yea r to process a trial for conspiracy to traffick in na rcotîcs'. Mr. Drea explained to thie Chamber members that the provincial government wants to return the jail back to what it originally was--a place where violent prisoners are kept to protect the public. In two years, he said, he hopes to have no female in an Ontario institution unless shte is violent or has committed a violent crime, Mr. Drea said the plan is to put female offenders into supervised residences in the community. The progran will s tart with females because they are the smallest numiber now ini jails.--210 out ot' 6,000 presently, he said. Mr. Drea said the Ministry of Correct iona 1 Services has ai1s( t'losed the training centres for older teen-agers so that first-sentence offendeî's can be put in com- munity residences for on-- the-job training. lie explained litat the ,çom munity ser'vice or work ordeî' programt is an alterna- tive to jail foi' minor offenders who. are not a threat to the community. ,lit is a waste of resources to put them into an institu- tion," hù said. 'lit costs $65.000 per inmnate to build a new institution, which is three times the cost of a new hospital bed," he 'said. Mr. Drea said the high cost is related to the elaborate security precautioiis required in a jail, and already the community work prograrn has saved the cost of building one new institu- tion. In addition, Mr. Drea pointed out, it cots $47,60 a day to keep a person in jail, the bulk of this cost being for supervision and correctional officers. Mr., Drea said the. coinl- inunity work prograiT face-s the minor of fender to face up to hiinselt ini his own coin- munity, and provides work for volunteer agencies that would not get donc other- wise. The success of the prograin can be shown by one particular example, said Mr. Drea, referring to a 17-year-old girl who was ordered to take an elderly lady on 15-minute walks once a week. As time passed, the girl volunteered to set the womnan's hair, and asked to work two extra days a wwek, Mr. Drea said. Now, even though she hbas been off the community Work program for five months, the girl still sees the womnan four tirnes a week, said Mr. Drea'. "We want f0 otiat them to see they are part of the comnmunity," said-Mr. Drea. "You have got to pay back that community if you have offended it; you. are going back into that community,'" he said. Uc H described the program as a great source of motiva- tion,' for the offender rehabilitates himsclf. "Work brings dignity, responsibility and recognition," he said. "In the real world'you have to work. " Prisoners must work to get timne off their sentences, said Mr. Drea, and work inside or outsidc the jail is assigned according to assessments of the prisoners. "The harder you work, the faster you get ouf," -he said. "There areý rewards and incentives." Mr. Drea, however, pointed ouf thaf work is not the answerý toall problems.: Intensive, -social, counsellingý, is needed too, he said. The programs of f hW& provincial government p ut a person into a position wher: he can bc of benef if f01!the.il community, he said, but the programs rely on publié; support, Mr. Drea fold the, Chamber members. 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