Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for a number of years inmates have been producing crafts related to their cultural background while incarcerated in territorial correctional centres. In the lobby of the Legislative Assembly building you will have noticed a vast array of carvings, paintings and other craft Items from the Yellowknife Correctional Centre. Yellowknife Correctional Centre has a crafts program where inmates from all cultural backgrounds learn from each other the skills associated with their talents.
For the first time, Yellowknife Correctional Centre has been asked to participate in a craft show, 'Festival of the Midnight Sun,' displaying crafts from all over the Northwest Territories
at various locations around the city. Those crafts not committed will be moved back to the centre by Friday afternoon, June 26, where they may be purchased between the hours of 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Proceeds from the carvings go into two areas: first, to the inmate welfare fund to assist with other inmate programs such as sports and recreational activities; and second, into their individual accounts which assist the inmates with personal financial responsibilities at home. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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