Ottawa’s plans to spend $1.3 billion to build a new hospital for inmates in New Brunswick is misguided and a “profound misallocation of resources,” Correctional Investigator of Canada Ivan Zinger says in his annual report released Thursday.
Instead, the ombudsman for inmates within the federal correctional system calls on the government to rely on partnerships with provincial facilities for acute mental health services.
“[Correctional Servi
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