A review of the controversial decision to transfer serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison has found the Correctional Service of Canada’s decision was “sound,” but noted that the agency could have given victims’ families advance warning of his transfer. “The Review Committee concluded that the decisions to reclassify this inmate to…

Soon after Canadians were told privacy law was preventing them from learning why notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was moved to a medium-security prison, the federal privacy watchdog was reminded behind the scenes that there are ways around it. Bernardo had spent nearly 30 years in a maximum-security prison—most recently the Millhaven Institution near Kingston,…

Days after Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino shared his outrage on social media over the transfer of notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison, the head of Canada’s federal prison system asked the department whether the politician had been told of the move. Anne Kelly, the commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada,…

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to resign in light of revelations that his office was aware of Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison months ago. “He’s lied about his knowledge and role in moving Paul Bernardo from a maximum security penitentiary to a medium security penitentiary,”…

The lawyer for the families of two of Paul Bernardo’s victims says the Correctional Service of Canada only told one of them that he was being transferred from maximum-security prison on the day it happened. Tim Danson says the family of Kristen French was notified of the convicted killer’s transfer in the morning of May…

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to use whatever tools it can to reverse a decision by the Correctional Service of Canada to transfer killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison. Bernardo’s move to a facility in Quebec was made public last week after the correctional service notified the lawyer representing…

A total of 27 federal inmates in prisons across Canada have applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) since it was first legalized by the Liberal government in 2016, says the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Of those 27 offenders, nine have been authorized to receive MAID, says the CSC, which is the federal government agency responsible…

A B.C. nurse is under investigation for allegedly trafficking prescription drugs to inmates in a maximum security prison in the province, court documents show. A petition filed by the B.C. College of Nurse and Midwives (BCCNM) and obtained by CBC News, said the nurse was working at Kent Institution, B.C.’s only maximum security prison, located…

The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) is sounding the alarm over a federal policy that would give clean needles to prisoners that guards wouldn’t be allowed to confiscate. The policy resulted from a lawsuit against the federal government in 2012 by a former prisoner and several HIV/AIDS organizations. The applicant, Steven Simons, became infected…

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is defending the RCMP’s decision not to release details surrounding the death of the man accused in a mass stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan. Mendicino says he understands the sense of urgency people feel about knowing how Myles Sanderson died after he was arrested on a rural stretch of highway in…