ST. JOHN'S, N.L. It was shortly after another death was confirmed at a notoriously harsh Newfoundland jail that Bob Buckingham wrote to his fellow defence lawyers to ask what they could do to better advocate for inmates.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - It was shortly after another death was confirmed at a notoriously harsh Newfoundland jail that Bob Buckingham wrote to his fellow defence lawyers to ask what they could do to better advocate for inmates.
Judges in Newfoundland and Labrador have recently reduced sentences for at least two inmates at Her Majesty s Penitentiary in St. John s in scathing written decisions condemning the 164-year-old prison s rodent and mould infestations and its crumbling infrastructure.