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| Women's prison can be closed, court rules |
| By The Whig Standard |
| Published: 10/16/2008 |
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ONTARIO, CANADA - Ontario's top court says corrections Canada can close the country's only stand-alone minimum-security federal prison for women, located in Kingston. The Court of Appeal for Ontario rejected the arguments of four women serving life sentences for murder. They argued that it would violate their rights to transfer them from Isabel Mc-Neill House in Kingston to multi-level prisons for women. "The applicants' argument essentially comes down to the contention that housing different levels of prisoners within the same institution in and of itself results in a deprivation of the liberty interest of minimum-security prisoners," the judgment states. "We cannot accept that general proposition." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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