Eighty-five prisoners from jails in the Northwest Territories are being transferred to Alberta s correctional system as wildfires bear down on Yellowknife one of the first times in Canadian history a natural disaster has forced a large-scale movement of prisoners between jurisdictions.
The provincial government has updated the rules for Alberta s correctional services by allowing applicants to the agency to have facial hair for religious or medical reasons.
On Wednesday, there were at least 529 active COVID cases among inmates across the Alberta Corrections system, which includes eight adult jails and two youth centres.