Police say that on Sunday at approximately 7:20 a.m., officers received a report of a theft from a motor vehicle in the Cowie Hill area of Halifax.

"We are aware and we are investigating," prison ombudsman Ivan Zinger said in an email.

Since March 16, federal correctional facilities in Ontario have decreased their inmate population by nearly 2,000.

Kevin William Curran, 74, had been serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of James Myer since April 19, 2001.

According to the Correctional Service of Canada, the total estimated institutional value of the seizure is $120,000.

The federal agency says illegal drugs were seized on Nov. 29 as a result of correctional staff acting on intelligence information.

According to the CSC, an inmate died of "apparent natural causes" while in custody at the medium-security prison.

The lockdown at Drumheller Institution that was put in place earlier this month following an inmate's death has been lifted.

Alberta's Drumheller Institution was under lockdown on Monday as staff were conducting a search at the facility following the death of an inmate a day earlier.

A collision between a motorcycle and CSC transport vehicle near Whitewood, Sask. on Wednesday leaves a 62-year-old man dead.