Correctional Service Canada

• CSC told staff not to inform public about Luka Magnotta transfer: docs

  Newly released documents show Correctional Service Canada instructed staff not to tell the public about Luka Magnotta's transfer to a medium security prison.

  Canada

  May 14
  
• Indigenous healing lodges face chronic underfunding across Canada, critics say

  Healing lodges for Indigenous people convicted of crimes have a track record of success. Supporters are asking why the lodges don't get more government support.

  Canada

  Apr 20
  
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• Charges laid in ‘serious assault’ at Millhaven Institution, OPP says

  A 24-year-old inmate is facing a number of charges including assault with a weapon.

  Crime

  Apr 19
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• Nearly 1 in 4 federal inmates are receiving treatment for opioid addiction

  'The crisis is alarming,' one expert said as new data shows nearly one in four federal inmates in Canada are receiving treatment for opioid addiction, more than double since 2016.

  Canada

  Apr 12
• Most wanted: After 51 months on lam, Quebec inmate pleads guilty to escaping prison

  Denis Bégin was sentenced to 18 months in prison to be served concurrently with a life sentence that he is already serving for second-degree murder. 

  Crime

  Mar 21
• Contraband seized at Warkworth Institution after suspected drone drop

  Staff located and seized contraband and other unauthorized items at the medium-security prison in the municipality of Trent Hills, located 60 kilometres southeast of Peterborough.

  Crime

  Feb 20
• Family disappointed in answers from corrections in Sask. stabbing inquest

  “The recommendations that are going to come out of this are huge,” said James Smith Cree Nation member Darryl Burns. “There’s still a lot of denial that a problem exists.”

  Crime

  Jan 24
• Why James Smith Cree Nation wasn’t warned of mass killer’s release from penitentiary

  Members of James Smith Cree Nation have been questioning why the community wasn’t notified of Myles Sanderson’s release from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary.

  Canada

  Jan 23
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• Meth, heroin, ecstasy among contraband seized at Joyceville Institution

  The CSC hasn't said if charges have been laid after an estimated $81,000 worth of illegal drugs and contraband was seized before it was smuggled into the Joyceville Institution.

  Crime

  Jan 10
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• Drone drops of drugs, weapons, cellphones ‘like Amazon deliveries’ at B.C. prisons: union

  B.C. institutions have been flooded with drugs, weapons and cell phones due to daily drone deliveries, according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.

  Crime

  Dec 15, 2023