This was a comment from a group of young men I went to speak to in our only closed custody facility in the province, the New Brunswick Youth Centre.

Formal arrangements are defined as the following services: pre-school or equivalent, compulsory education, centre-based services outside school hours, a collective crèche or another day-care centre, including family day-care and professional certified childminders.

25. Urges Member States to fulfil their international obligations by ensuring equal rights and treatment for children residing with the imprisoned parent and to create living conditions adapted to their needs through the provision of separate cells removed, where possible, from the ordinary prison environment, through their attendance at local nurseries or schools and through flexible and generous arrangements for outings with other family members or with child protection officials, enabling their healthy physical, mental, emotional and social development, and with suitable facilities and qualified staff to assist prisoners who are mothers with their parental responsibilities and the necessary care ...[+++]; recommends also that, in the case of minors residing in prison, the other parent should be able to exercise his or her parental authority;

22. Urges Member States to fulfil their international obligations by ensuring equal rights and treatment for children residing with their imprisoned parent and to create living conditions adapted to their needs through the provision of separate cells removed, where possible, from the ordinary prison environment, through their attendance of local nurseries or schools and through flexible and generous arrangements for outings with other family members or with child protection officials, enabling their healthy physical, mental, emotional and social development, and with suitable facilities and qualified staff to assist prisoners who are mothers with their parental responsibilities and the necessary care ...[+++]; recommends also that, in the case of minors residing in prison, the other parent should be able to exercise his or her parental authority;

51. Urges the Commission to support continuing reforms in any Member State that practised the abuse of psychiatry, over-use of medication or incarceration, or inhumane practices such as caged beds or excessive use of seclusion rooms, particularly in some of the new Member States; stresses that in some of the new Member States mental health indicators in society are as a rule drifting in the wrong direction, with a lot of suicides, violence and dependencies, especially on alcohol; underlines that these countries inherited inadequate mental health care systems and large psychiatric and care institutions which increase social exclusion an ...[+++]d stigma, while at the same time there is a lack of community services which need to be integrated into general health and social protection systems; calls on the Commission to place the reform of psychiatry on the agenda for EU accession negotiations; considers that prison is not a suitable environment for those suffering mental ill health and that alternatives should be actively pursued;

6. Expresses its firm determination to make the issue of industrial risk a priority and calls on the Member States to examine, in cooperation with the operators concerned, the most appropriate way of relocating such dangerous plants in order to reassure the population, while paying attention to the need for such new sites to be sufficiently attractive in terms of the economic development of the firms concerned and bearing in mind the risks of transporting the materials necessary for the operation of such plants;