Things are slowly returning to normal at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary near Prince Albert after a riot earlier this month left one inmate dead and eight more injured.
Correctional Service Canada spokesman Jeff Campbell says a prison-wide lockdown at the facility has been lifted and visitors are being allowed back.
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He says the prison’s minimum-security unit resumed its normal operations late in the evening of Dec. 22 while the medium and maximum-security inmates were placed onto a modified routine.
Campbell says the higher-security inmates are now allowed to shower and make phone calls, but their movement within the rest of the prison is restricted.
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He confirmed that some prisoners have been transferred out of the federal facility since the riot, which caused significant damage to a large portion of the medium-security unit.
However, he wouldn’t release details on how many inmates were transferred or where.
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