Mr. John Costello:

That was mainly life sentence prisoners, virtually all of whom participate. Let us suppose one is serving a fixed sentence for eight years. One gets 25% remission and gets out after six years. We can only review such cases after four years. In practice, because of delays in our system, we were only reviewing such cases after five years instead of four years. The prisoners were wasting their time because they were going to get out a few months later in any event. That was happening in many cases.

We are working to reduce those delays into the future.