Circles of Support and Accountability

Today Tatenda Chikukwa and Jim Hutchings spoke with Otto Driedger about how Circles of Support and Accountability can help make it possible for some sexual offenders to safely re-integrate into the community.  This program has an amazing success rate in the neighborhood of 80%, which begs the question why the federal government recently decided not to continue a grant to this organization necessitating cuts in staff and other resources.  Cost to run this program: from 10 to 12 thousand dollars a year per person.  Cost to keep these offenders incarcerated per year:  over 100,000 dollars per person.