223 inmates at Quebec's Port-Cartier maximum security penitentiary were evacuated last Friday and Saturday, due to forest fires raging nearby.
More than 200 inmates at Quebec's Port-Cartier maximum security penitentiary were evacuated last Friday and Saturday, due to forest fires raging nearby.Posted: Jun 28, 2024 12:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago
While 1,000 Port-Cartier residents had already left their neighbourhoods, Correctional Service Canada and more than 70 officers evacuated 223 inmates, many with maximum-security clearances, to other federal institutions several hundred kilometres away. Bolduc added that some of the inmates had managed to break their self-locking fasteners during their transfer to the Donnacona and Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiaries.
"In recent weeks, we had already prepared our entire contingency plan in connection with the assessment. We were ready," said Foucher on Radio-Canada'sHe also said the convoys of correctional services vans were also escorted and supported by teams from the Sûreté du Québec and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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