Correctional Officers

• 5 B.C. correctional officers needed medical treatment after ‘stimulants’ exposure

  The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers stated in a release that on June 11, the five officers came into contact with the toxic substance inside an Abbotsford institution.

  Crime

  Jun 22
  
• FSIN calls for change after Saskatchewan Penitentiary assault

  Darla Fourstar said her son told her he was assaulted in his cell and requires medication and healing.

  Crime

  Dec 2, 2022
  
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• 98 new correctional officers hired in Ontario

  According to a news release, new Ontario correctional officer graduates have completed an eight-week training program virtually through Mohawk College.

  Canada

  Oct 14, 2022
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• Charges dismissed against nine N.L. correctional officers in relation to inmate death

  Jonathan Henoche was 33 when he died at Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's on Nov. 6, 2019.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2021
• Lawyer, loved ones frustrated by decision to remove memorial crosses outside of EMDC

  A grievance was filed alleging that the memorial crosses were exacerbating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among some jail employees.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2021
• Family of Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility inmate raises concerns over cell restrictions

  A relative of a remanded man at a Nova Scotia corrections facility says inmates are being heavily restricted to their cells due to staff shortages.

  Politics

  Dec 3, 2020
• Hamilton police charge two correctional officers with drug offences

  After a six-month-long investigation, Hamilton police charged two correctional officers at Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre found to be distributing drugs to inmates.

  Crime

  Jun 19, 2020
• Oxycodone seized at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick: Correctional Service Canada

  The federal agency says illegal drugs were seized on Nov. 29 as a result of correctional staff acting on intelligence information.

  Crime

  Dec 13, 2019
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• ‘Wall’ of inmates blocked guards during stabbing in Nova Scotia jail, union says

  More than 25 inmates in one block of the Nova Scotia Central Correctional Facility outnumbered correctional officers called to respond to the incident Monday evening.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2019
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• Warkworth Institution correctional staff stage picket over claims of understaffing, rising workplace violence, drug use

  The union representing correctional officers at Warkworth Institution claims the prison has had 566 incidents deemed "acts of aggression" so far this year.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2019