Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just because we're stopping the use of the remand unit in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre doesn't mean there won't still be remand prisoners in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre. Those cells in that area will still be used, but they won't be used for the same classification of person. What's going to happen is, and the warden has confirmed, that based on what he's seen in the past few years, 40 to 50 percent of the inmates on remand in that facility could be kept in general population. So that means they would be mixed in with the regular population in SMCC. They could even be housed in those cells. But it means the post itself won't be staffed 24/7, so we wouldn't keep the inmates there who are judged to be a serious risk. So people who are more at risk will be transferred to the North Slave Correctional Centre and that part of the facility will be used for isolation or for other prisoners who don't require us to have 24/7 staffing on that one post.
Charles Dent on Question 531-15(3): Hay River Remand Unit
In the Legislative Assembly on March 3rd, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 531-15(3): Hay River Remand Unit
Question 531-15(3): Hay River Remand Unit
Item 7: Oral Questions
March 2nd, 2005
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