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| McNeill House battle heats up |
| By The Whig Standard |
| Published: 02/13/2008 |
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ONTARIO, CANADA - A legal battle over a plan to close Canada's only minimum security federal prison for women evolved into all-out war on the historical treatment of women. "Men are provided with the benefit of the law and women are not," lawyer Diane Oleskiw told Justice Robert Scott in a Kingston courtroom yesterday. Oleskiw represents four female inmates at Isabel McNeill House in Kingston. They went to court last year to block Corrections Canada from closing the facility and shipping them to multi-level prisons such as Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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