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Inside Dorchester Penitentiary Part III: New $1 billion centre alone won’t fix prison system’s health-care crisis

A Moncton psychiatrist, who has being doing part-time consulting work at Dorchester Penitentiary for 25 years, says the announcement of a new, 155-bed health centre there is long overdue. “This is quite a challenging place to work,” Dr. Louis Thériault … Continue reading

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Inside Dorchester Penitentiary, Part II: lousy food, shitty pay = poverty in prison

“I’d like to see inmates get that chip off their shoulder,” Jason Alexander, the elected chair of the inmate committee told 19 visitors to Dorchester Penitentiary’s medium-security wing earlier this month. “You have to choose to rehabilitate yourself,” the soft-spoken … Continue reading

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