Prison News | Manitoba

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• Gangs in Prison
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• Suicides in Prison
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Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Rage and the rise of street gangs - Inner-city poverty and racialism drove young aboriginals into gangs
  
  The following is a summary of Indians Wear Red: Aboriginal Street Gangs in Winnipeg, by Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette and Jim Silver, published by Fernwood Publishing and due to be launched at 7 p.m. Thursday at McNally Robinson Booksellers.... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Free Press, Wednesday, September 25, 2013
  
  
• Five gangsters sentenced to 11 years for jail killing
  
  Daniel Christopher Dumas, 21, Eric Plante, 22, Eriberto Soldat, 20, Brent Houle, 21, and Emile Hugh Williams, 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday for their respective actions leading to the death of Tyler St. Paul, 21, inside the Milner Ridge Correctional Centre on May 16, 2011.... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Free Press, Thursday, August 29, 2013
  
  
• Six years in prison for cocaine dealer - Caught in Rock Machine drug sting
  
  An "experienced" Winnipeg cocaine dealer, 29 year-old Richard Lund, has been sentenced to six years in prison after being scooped up in a sweeping covert police sting targeting the Manitoba chapter of the Rock Machine biker gang.... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday, August 13, 2013
  
  
• Ways sought to keep native youths from crime
  
  He saw his older brother stabbed through a screen door when he was eight years old, started abusing drugs at age 10... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Sun, Monday, February 26, 2007
  
  
• Assault suspect beaten in jailhouse
  
  The victim of the beating was 22-year-old Stanley Ross, a convicted car thief whom a source has identified as a member of the Manitoba Warriors... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Sun, Thursday, January 25, 2007
  
  
• Boy, 16, acquitted of storing machine gun for street gang
  
  A 16-year-old boy was acquitted yesterday of storing a machine gun for a North End street gang... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Free Press, Wednesday, January 24, 2007
  
  
• Getting closer: cops: To identifying Tokarchuk suspects
  
  The main suspects in the May 2003 execution-style shooting of Kevin Tokarchuk may... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Sun, Tuesday, January 2, 2007
  
  
• Slaying victim drove stolen death car
  
  A Winnipeg man out on parole for killing his brother and his brother's girlfriend in a high-speed... [ more ]
  The Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday, October 31, 2006
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Prisoners' mental health in spotlight - Overcrowding means lack of treatment, activists say
  
  MANITOBA jails are facing serious problems with overcrowding and dealing with mental-health issues, one of the province's leading justice organizations says.... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, August 10, 2013
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Assault suspect beaten in jailhouse
  
  The victim of the beating was 22-year-old Stanley Ross, a convicted car thief whom a source has identified as a member of the Manitoba Warriors... [ more ]
  Winnipeg Sun, Thursday, January 25, 2007
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News