'Having a virtually empty youth jail in this community when it could be better utilized to address some obvious systemic problems seems ludicrous if not downright embarrassing,' says Stan Hyatt
A former director of the Prince George Youth Custody Centre says the facility could be put to a better use.
"It's a multi-million-dollar building, it's got all the infrastructure necessary to repurpose it into something a lot more useful than a detention centre," Morris says. However, it said there has been a "positive trend" of declining youth custody numbers over the past number of years. In a response to a request for comment, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions said the provincial government is "focused on building a voluntary system of mental health and substance use care that works for everyone, where there wasn’t one in 2017."
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