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Canadian Inmates Could Help Train Restoration
By thewhig.com
Published: 01/26/2011

Correctional Service Canada would be receptive to a discussion about allowing inmates to help restore the outer train station.

"If CN knocked on my door and said, 'Lookit, we'd like to have some conversations with you about your ability to provide inmates that could aid us in the redevelopment of the (station),' I'd be glad to sit down and would welcome the opportunity," Ross Toller, Ontario regional deputy commissioner, said Tuesday.CNwould have to take the initiative, he said.

Toller said that, in the past, he has offered to help the city with community projects.

"There's also that aspect of inmates' and the community's acceptance of fellas coming through that are giving back and of their own time, but some people always see it as taking jobs," he said.

"To us, it's developing work skills, it's working outside an institutional setting, it's giving them the opportunity to work with regular folk."

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