Winnipeg Free Press
Hard time in hell
Gangs are in control, inmates are armed and the threat of violence is omnipresent at Stony Mountain Institution By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, May. 14, 2021
They call it Murder Mountain.
Every unit of the prison is infested with gangs. Drugs are potent and easy to score. Inmates walk around armed with hidden shanks. Beatings and stabbings are a common occurrence. Homicides follow hangings, and hangings follow homicides.
Dead bodies pile up with disturbing regularity.
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CSC works with an increasingly diverse and complex offender population, including Security Treat Groups (STG), and has a number of strategies in place to manage and reduce violent incidents in our institutions. We do not tolerate violence of any form and incidences of violence can lead to disciplinary action or
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Within minutes of meeting him, Teddy will open up to you, and fess up to what most people wouldn’t.
“I fart.”
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