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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called the situation at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre “egregious” in her first public comments Wednesday on what’s happening at the troubled Innes Road jail.
Wynne was on CFRA’s Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon Wednesday afternoon when she was asked about a Postmedia report on an inmate who committed suicide in solitary confinement earlier this week, as well as recent reports about inmates sleeping in showers and the death of a sick inmate.
The premier said “transformation” is needed and pointed to a task force convened by local MPP Yasir Naqvi, the minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Naqvi has set a June 1 deadline for the 13-member task force to come up with an action plan to improve safety, mental health support, reintegration of prisoners into the community and more access to rehabilitation programs.
Wynne pointed to the hiring of 710 new correctional officers with 2,000 more to be added in the next three years and said she’s particularly concerned that inmates at OCDC aren’t getting access to the rehabilitation programs they need.
“Otherwise, society is more at risk,” she said.
After denying that the provincial Liberals’ own controversial fundraising bought donors access to her government, Wynne was asked whether she would consider imposing a ban on corporate and union donations on municipalities. She would go no further than to say the idea has been raised.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister, has come out against such a ban in Ottawa.
Wynne said she has not discussed the issue with Watson but that all jurisdictions are going to face “increasing pressure” to move in that direction to catch up with other parts of Canada, and “I think it’s the right one.”
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Wynne was on CFRA’s Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon Wednesday afternoon when she was asked about a Postmedia report on an inmate who committed suicide in solitary confinement earlier this week, as well as recent reports about inmates sleeping in showers and the death of a sick inmate.
The premier said “transformation” is needed and pointed to a task force convened by local MPP Yasir Naqvi, the minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Naqvi has set a June 1 deadline for the 13-member task force to come up with an action plan to improve safety, mental health support, reintegration of prisoners into the community and more access to rehabilitation programs.
Wynne pointed to the hiring of 710 new correctional officers with 2,000 more to be added in the next three years and said she’s particularly concerned that inmates at OCDC aren’t getting access to the rehabilitation programs they need.
“Otherwise, society is more at risk,” she said.
After denying that the provincial Liberals’ own controversial fundraising bought donors access to her government, Wynne was asked whether she would consider imposing a ban on corporate and union donations on municipalities. She would go no further than to say the idea has been raised.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister, has come out against such a ban in Ottawa.
Wynne said she has not discussed the issue with Watson but that all jurisdictions are going to face “increasing pressure” to move in that direction to catch up with other parts of Canada, and “I think it’s the right one.”
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