Shepody Healing Centre

• N.B. mother waits for answers 7 months after son dies in prison psychiatric centre

  Landon LeBlanc, 21, died at the Shepody Healing Centre -- a security facility at Dorchester Penitentiary for male offenders with mental health conditions.

  Canada

  Nov 5
  
• Killer Gregory Despres ordered to remain in N.B. secure psychiatric facility

  A trial in 2008 determined Gregory Despres was suffering delusions and schizophrenia when he killed Fred Fulton and Verna Decarie in their Minto, N.B., home.

  Crime

  Mar 17, 2021
  
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• Feds looking at creating ‘Health Centre of Excellence’ at Dorchester Penitentiary

  Corrections Canada will undertake a study to create a "Health Centre of Excellence" at Shepody Healing Centre within the penitentiary.

  Canada

  Mar 16, 2018
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• Despres hearing reveals new details of changes at Shepody Healing Centre

  Last week's review board hearing for Gregory Despres also revealed details of some of the changes happening at the Shepody Healing Centre in Dorchester, N.B.

  Aug 31, 2015
• Review board orders Despres to remain at Shepody for now

  The New Brunswick Review Board ordered that Gregory Despres remain at the Shepody Healing Centre for the time being.

  Aug 28, 2015
• NB Public Safety Minister caught off guard by federal policy change

  New Brunswick Public Safety Minister Stephen Horsman told Global News Friday that he first heard about a federal decision to transfer responsibility for inmates at Shepody Healing Centre to the province through the media.

  Canada

  Mar 6, 2015
• Feds closing 500 acute-care beds for sick inmates

  Federal prisons are closing 515 acute-care beds, transferring them to "intermediate," and halving the number of acute and supportive spaces for women inmates with mental illnes.

  Canada

  Mar 5, 2015
• NCR prisoners at Shepody being transferred to provincial responsibility: feds

  Not criminally responsible inmates at the Shepody Healing Centre will soon become the province's responsibility.

  Canada

  Mar 4, 2015
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• Changes coming to Shepody Healing Centre in Dorchester

  Two former employees of a secure treatment facility for inmates in the Atlantic region say moving inmates would not be beneficial for their treatment.

  Feb 27, 2015