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| Female inmates protest move |
| By The Whig Standard |
| Published: 02/12/2008 |
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ONTARIO, CANADA - Four female killers don't want to leave Kingston, in part, because they'd fall under the gaze of 21 surveillance cameras at a women's prison in Kitchener, a judge heard yesterday. The women - Ludmila Ilina, Lorie Dodd, Bonnie McAuley and Lisa Olsen - began a four-day legal battle in Kingston that will decide the fate of the country's only remaining stand-alone minimum-security prison for women, Isabel McNeill House in Kingston. Corrections Canada wants to close it and ship the women to multi-level prisons such as Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener. The four inmates, all serving life sentences for murder, are the only inmates at McNeill House. They argue that moving them out of the facility to multi-level prisons with razor-wire perimeter fences and security cameras constitutes a deprivation of liberty since there would be a "substantial change" in the conditions of confinement. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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