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| Crowded jails leading to violence |
| By The Province |
| Published: 05/29/2008 |
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - B.C. prisons are so overcrowded that violence is inevitable, says the head of the corrections officers' union. B.C. courts are not properly protected either, said Dean Purdy, chairman of the corrections and sheriffs services unit of the B.C. Government Employees Union. He said B.C.'s nine jails are 170 percent over capacity, with an inmate-to-staff ratio of 60:1, triple the rate of six years ago. Violence between inmates and staff has "risen dramatically." At the maximum-security Vancouver Island Regional Correction Centre, there have been two assaults on staff this month, and 47 since 2002. |
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