“Ontario is keeping communities safe by investing $23 million over two years to hire 50 additional probation and parole officers. This will help support safe transitions of persons in custody and increase the supervision of offenders to enhance public safety.”

“Ontario will infuse $500 million into corrections over the next five years as it hires hundreds of frontline staff and updates aging jails, the province announced Tuesday. […] Chris Jackel, a spokesman for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents about 9,000 correctional workers said he’s ecstatic. […] [This funding] will improve the mental health and addictions needs of the inmate population, Jackel said. “And with such an influx of full-time staff members, it will help current staff by reducing the workload, which will really help with burnout.”