Correctional Service Canada

• Nearly 1 in 4 federal inmates are receiving treatment for opioid addiction

  'The crisis is alarming,' one expert said as new data shows nearly one in four federal inmates in Canada are receiving treatment for opioid addiction, more than double since 2016.

  Canada

  Apr 12
  
• Most wanted: After 51 months on lam, Quebec inmate pleads guilty to escaping prison

  Denis Bégin was sentenced to 18 months in prison to be served concurrently with a life sentence that he is already serving for second-degree murder. 

  Crime

  Mar 21
  
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• Contraband seized at Warkworth Institution after suspected drone drop

  Staff located and seized contraband and other unauthorized items at the medium-security prison in the municipality of Trent Hills, located 60 kilometres southeast of Peterborough.

  Crime

  Feb 20
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• Family disappointed in answers from corrections in Sask. stabbing inquest

  “The recommendations that are going to come out of this are huge,” said James Smith Cree Nation member Darryl Burns. “There’s still a lot of denial that a problem exists.”

  Crime

  Jan 24
• Why James Smith Cree Nation wasn’t warned of mass killer’s release from penitentiary

  Members of James Smith Cree Nation have been questioning why the community wasn’t notified of Myles Sanderson’s release from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary.

  Canada

  Jan 23
• Meth, heroin, ecstasy among contraband seized at Joyceville Institution

  The CSC hasn't said if charges have been laid after an estimated $81,000 worth of illegal drugs and contraband was seized before it was smuggled into the Joyceville Institution.

  Crime

  Jan 10
• Drone drops of drugs, weapons, cellphones ‘like Amazon deliveries’ at B.C. prisons: union

  B.C. institutions have been flooded with drugs, weapons and cell phones due to daily drone deliveries, according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.

  Crime

  Dec 15, 2023
• Paul Bernardo transfer: Prison officials ‘intervened’ to stop public statement

  Documents show that Correctional Service Canada stopped Paul Bernardo from having his lawyer make a statement to the media as controversy swirled around his prison transfer.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2023
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• Prison overdose prevention program expands to Ontario

  While Canada battles with an opioid epidemic, Corrections Canada is looking at how to address the same issue with its prisons.

  Canada

  Sep 14, 2023
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• CSC staff ‘worried the circus would begin’ before Bernardo transfer: emails

  A series of emails from Correctional Service Canada employees detail worry about the 'optics' and potential 'circus' around Paul Bernardo's prison transfer.

  Canada

  Jul 21, 2023