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Skyler Sappier ‘didn’t need to die,’ criminologist says

February 8, 2022

On the day of Skyler Sappier’s funeral, one Ottawa-based criminologist questions why the 28-year-old was imprisoned in the first place. And the union representing New Brunswick corrections officers says they’re stretched thin.

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