Canadians deserve to know more about why corrections officials make decisions on things like high-profile prison transfers, a former watchdog says. But Howard Sapers, a corrections policy consultant and former Correctional Investigator of Canada, says that transparency should still be limited to prevent the sharing of personal information about prisoners and anything else that’s not … Read more
Three days before murderer Luka Magnotta was transferred from a maximum to medium security prison, Correctional Service Canada instructed staff not to tell the public about the move, newly released documents show. The decision to transfer one of Canada’s most notorious killers back in the summer of 2022 would not come to light for nearly … Read more
The head of Canada’s correctional services will face questions over notorious killer Luka Magnotta’s prison transfer, MPs decided in a testy committee meeting Monday. MPs on the House of Commons public safety committee debated for two hours whether to study the transfer of Magnotta to medium-security facility La Macaza in August 2022, a move that … Read more
A year before the transfer of serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison in Quebec ignited a political firestorm, then-public safety minister Marco Mendicino’s office had been informed about plans for a similar move of another high-profile killer — Luka Magnotta — to the same institution. “Advanced notification was provided to the … Read more
