Paul Bernardo is shown in this courtroom sketch during Ontario court proceedings via video link in Napanee, Ont., on October 5, 2018. Despite being denied parole twice, Correctional Service of Canada confirmed that Bernardo was transferred from a maximum security facility in Ontario to a medium security prison in Quebec.
After a Conservative MP toured the Quebec prison where notorious murderer Paul Bernardo is serving his sentence, some Tory MPs and a Bloc Quebecois colleague are staging an urgent committee meeting to review what they say are inappropriate living conditions for an infamous killer.Paul Bernardo is shown in this courtroom sketch during Ontario court proceedings via video link in Napanee, Ont., on October 5, 2018.
He described Bernardo as a "well-fed" prisoner living in a correctional facility that he said looked more like a university campus than a prison. "If I wasn't pissed off enough seeing the hockey rink and tennis court, the cherry on top was seeing this beautiful gymnasium and next to that is a weight room. Much nicer than 95 per cent of Canadians have access to.
The MPs, who include Conservatives Doug Shipley, Dane Lloyd, Glen Motz and Damien Kurek, and Bloc member Kristina Michaud, want to bring Liberal cabinet ministers and Correctional Service of Canada officials before the committee to answer questions about Bernardo's transfer and the prison conditions.
The CSC spokesperson also described these features as "basic in nature," like "most aspects of an institutional prison setting."
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