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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
An inmate at the Bowden Institution died Tuesday after experiencing complications related to COVID-19, according to the Correctional Service of Canada.
Posted: May 10, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 10
A protester holds a Black Lives Matter sign behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as people take part in an anti-racism protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 5, 2020.(Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Advocates for justice system reform are welcoming new proposals from the federal government to address the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous individuals and other racialized groups in the criminal justice system.
In the recent federal budget, the government pledged $216.4 million over five years, and $43.3 million each year after that, to divert Black and Indigenous youth and young people of colour from the courts.