Prison News | British Columbia

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Moving a 'last resort' for CSC
  
  Maximum security inmates would only be moved as a last resort to neighbouring institutions, says a Correctional Service Canada... [ more ]
  Mission City Record , Friday, June 15, 2007
  
  
• Judge calls handling of multiple offender a 'catastrophic failure'
  
  A B.C. Supreme Court judge described the handling by Corrections Canada of a 30-year-old multiple sex offender as a catastrophic failure as ... [ more ]
  The Globe and Mail, Friday, December 22, 2006
  
  
• Hells Angels chief's son pleads guilty:
  
  Wannabe member of motorcycle gang faces more than 6 years in prison... [ more ]
  Canada.com, Friday, September 15, 2006
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Nanaimo Correctional prisoners who were hospitalized drank antifreeze, prison officials say
  
  A group of inmates at the Nanaimo Correctional Centre who were hospitalized on June 13 consumed antifreeze, says B.C. Corrections. Cindy Rose, a spokeswoman for B.C. Corrections, said that an operational review determined the six men had ingested the toxic substance.... [ more ]
  Postmedia News, Friday, August 9, 2013
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Moving a 'last resort' for CSC
  
  Maximum security inmates would only be moved as a last resort to neighbouring institutions, says a Correctional Service Canada... [ more ]
  Mission City Record , Friday, June 15, 2007
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

Prison Life & Culture

• Psychologist says teen's anxiety around women led him to murder B.C. girl; man is bulking up for prison
  
  SURREY, B.C. - A young man's belief that he could cure his paralyzing anxiety around women by having sex drove him to fatally attack a 15-year-old girl in a Delta, B.C. park, a forensic psychologist says.... [ more ]
  Canadian Press, Friday, July 19, 2013
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Federal prison guards in B.C. face rising threats of riots and attacks from inmates who are angered over prison-job wage cuts and diminishing benefits, sources say.
  
  Federal prison guards in B.C. face rising threats of riots and attacks from inmates who are angered over prison-job wage cuts and diminishing benefits, sources say.

  This week, wage cuts took effect in federal penitentiaries across the country, causing protests and job strikes in some eastern jails... ... [ more ]

  Province, Wednesday, October 2, 2013