Great first step Corrections Canada!
I'll continue to be looking for interviews the media does with staff to see how free and open things are now. Staff including security, case managers, shop instructors, psychologists, medical staff.
In l978, after a double murder, the CBC came into Collins Bay Institution in l981, staff were ordered to not say a word to the press. Media were instructed to not to film' staff while on the job.
Hoping Mark Gerretsen MP for Kingston and the Islands can get in on media day, he has the right security clearance.
Same with Adam Vaughan and other Toronto MPs who need to understand prisons much better because inmates are let out in their Wards every day, including sex offenders.
Who can remember the last time a Minister of Public Safety went inside a federal prison?
Ralph Goodale is an astute politician known to see the human side of circumstances.
Hoping this continues over to Corrections [in his legislative and government policy objectives], one that will include proper care for staff and inmates, including proper management of medication for mentally ill inmates should be a focus for the media.
The prison system should also be open to all police training colleges, including RCMP recruits [as part of training], whilst the media should be familiarizing itself with the Correctional Investigator's 2016 Report to Parliament.
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1063369
Media kit: Info on CBI was exceptionally well done: media@csc-scc.gc.ca
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