On August 6 and 8, 2020, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, packages containing contraband and unauthorized items were seized at Donnacona Institution, a federal maximum-security institution.
On August 13, 2020, at about 11:00 a.m., a lockdown was put in place at Matsqui Institution, a medium security federal institution, to enable staff members to conduct an exceptional search.
On August 11, 2020, Donald Duane Bartlett, an inmate from Dorchester Penitentiary – Medium sector, died of apparent natural causes, while in our custody.
During the month of July 2020, correctional officers and security intelligence officers at Collins Bay Institution seized multiple packages containing contraband and unauthorized items, both inside and outside the institutional perimeter, from suspected throw overs.
On August 2, 2020, at approximately 10:10 p.m. inmate Nikki Alfonso was observed by staff leaving the premises of the Eagle Women’s Lodge, a multi-level security women’s healing lodge.
On July 29, 2020, during the midnight security round, staff members at Willow Cree Healing Lodge, a minimum-security federal institution, discovered that Royce Badger was not accounted for.
On July 26, 2020, Roderick Charles LaPlante, an inmate from the Regional Psychiatric Centre died while in our custody of apparent natural causes following an illness.