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| New halfway house for ex-offenders |
| By Whig Standard |
| Published: 02/13/2009 |
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CANADA - Public safety minister Peter Van Loan will be in Kingston today, when he's expected to announce that a new halfway house for ex-convicts will open Tuesday. Federal officials have refused to confirm the opening date of the facility that replaces the Portsmouth Centre, but the Whig-Standard reported last month that the facility is set to open Feb. 17. Last June, then minister Stockwell Day announced that the Portsmouth Avenue centre, which houses inmates freed from federal prisons, would be closed within 10 months and a temporary centre opened in a refurbished unit at Frontenac Institution, a minimum-security prison on Bath Road. The government said it was responding to longstanding complaints by neighbors about dangerous sex offenders living at the Portsmouth Centre, which is adjacent to a public park and an elementary school. The centre houses up to 30 ex-inmates who have been released but who are required to live in a supervised residential setting. In recent years, it has housed a growing number of dangerous sex offenders who are subject to long-term supervision orders imposed by courts. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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