It's certainly interesting - but it's clear that the Liberals had nothing to do with it, in spite of the headline and Harper-bashing. All that said, any decline in these numbers - for whatever reason or non-reason - is good news.

“It’s quite impressive that, despite the fact there’s been no legislative changes, no regulatory changes, no injection of new money in corrections, the same commissioner, that we’ve seen a significant improvement in a number of performance indicators in health in prisons,” said federal correctional ombudsman Ivan Zinger.