The President of the SGEU is calling on the province to drastically improve the conditions and regulations of Saskatchewan’s four correctional centres. Bob Bymoen says thanks to overcrowding, assaults, the cancellation of visits and even a lack of medical care, penitentiaries are a “powder keg” waiting to go off. Bymoen says the centres staff are just as unhappy as inmates in some cases. He says the government needs to look at its hiring practices. He says, the government continues to hire, the people continue to quit, and the government needs to find out why they can’t keep employes inside these correctional centres. Bymoen says the employees are not paid as well as police or fire and struggle to get any time off work.
[ckrm June 27 2018]
Saskatchewan Correctional Centres are a Powder Keg
By Saskatoon Media Group
Jun 27, 2018 | 9:28 AM
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