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Federal prisons won't be used to house inmates displaced by the G7 summit in Alberta in June. The province says it doesn't plan to manage its prison populations the same way it did the last time ...
EDMONTON, Alberta – Employees at seven prisons in Alberta have walked off the job to protest the suspension of a colleague who complained about safety issues. The Alberta labor board ruled ...
Global News has been sent documents and screenshots appearing to show how an alleged fake stay of proceedings letter tricked Alberta's justice system into letting out an inmate.
An Alberta inmate on the lam and her boyfriend were arrested and charged in relation to allegations an inmate was wrongfully ...
Testifying via telephone in a Yellowknife courtroom on Wednesday, an acting assistant warden at the Bowden Institution in Alberta said rehabilitative programing at the prison was just restarted a ...
Staff members at two central Alberta federal prisons have tested positive for COVID-19, the latest in a string of cases at correctional centres in the province. Three employees are infected at the ...
Though Alberta government statistics reveal dozens of allegations on record, the case at the Red Deer Remand Centre is the only sexual assault in the provincial correctional system in the past ...
But while COVID-19 wreaks havoc in correctional facilities around the world, Alberta still has zero confirmed cases in its provincial jails or federal prisons, five weeks after the province ...
This comes as corrections officers plan to protest the system currently in place in some prisons, a needle exchange that sees fresh needles distributed to inmates You can save this article by ...
A judge is calling for a public inquiry into an Edmonton inmate’s death, saying it’s the only way to get to the bottom of three guards’ actions that day amid concerns they were running a ...