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Kimberly Squirrel should not have ended up at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in the first place, says the executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan.
Patti Tait said supports for women for mental health issues, housing and addictions need to start in the community, long before women are remanded. She said many of the women presently at the women’s jail on remand doing “dead time” could be housed in the community as an alternative to incarceration.
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Kimberly Squirrel should not have ended up at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in the first place, says the executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan.
Patti Tait said supports for women for mental health issues, housing and addictions need to start in the community, long before women are remanded. She said many of the women presently at the women’s jail on remand doing “dead time” could be housed in the community as an alternative to incarceration.
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