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SABOTAGE:
How Harris government policies
have increased the use of sick time
by Ontario correctional officers
Threats and violence
Only a small number of Ontarians ever receive death threats
as a regular part of their workday. Very few are assaulted on
the job. For most of us, it is hard to imagine working in a
place where serious threats and even assaults from criminal
offenders would be commonplace, and still harder to imagine that
these incidents would be treated lightly by our employers or,
indeed, by the Ontario government. Yet that is exactly what is
happening more and more often in Ontario correctional
facilities, as the charts following page show.
Correctional Officers expect their managers to treat threats
and assaults for what they are – criminal acts. Yet police are
only called just over half the time. Charges are laid less than
half the time.
"High maintenance" inmates
100 per cent of institutions reported an increase in the
number of inmates admitted with psychiatric problems or
developmental disabilities. Few facilities were equipped to deal
with them, however.
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