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Adjournment Proceedings

An adjournment debate on CORCAN, the Correctional Service of Canada’s inmate employment and skills training program. Scott Reid of the Conservatives said the program employs 608 people at a salary cost of $66 million to train about 1,056 inmates, roughly $62,000 per prisoner per year, and argued studies show it does not help participants keep jobs or avoid reoffending. He also said Corrections Canada, in meeting a $132-million savings target, eliminated 25 community employment coordinators who help former inmates find work, and argued the savings should come from CORCAN instead. Jacques Ramsay, a Liberal parliamentary secretary, replied that CORCAN gives offenders a sense of purpose, promotes pro-social behaviour, teaches trades such as farming, construction and welding, and helps them find employment, which he said contributes to safer institutions and communities. He said he did not share Reid’s view and that all members want safer communities.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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