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A DEAL at $1.69 million, which is less than what it cost to build. A for sale sign
at the old Terrace Regional Correction Centre highlights the provincial govern-
ment’s goal of selling the building. It was closed in the spring due to cutbacks.

Jail wasn’t needed
says provincial gov't

FEWER LOW-RISK inmates are ending
up in B.C.’s prison system, the province’s
solicitor general says in a letter respond-
ing to critics of the decision to close Ter-
race’s regional correctional centre.

The facility, classified as an open cus-
todial facility for low risk offenders, was
closed earlier this year as part of wide-
ranging government service cuts.

Ina letter to the Kitimat Stikine regio-
nal district, Rich Coleman says open
custody jails like the one in. Terrace
weren't being fully utilized.

Coleman says that’s partly because

_judges are giving some offenders condi-
tional sentences rather than jail terms.

Inmates who are serving prison terms
require a higher level of security than was
in effect at Terrace’s correctional centre.

“Many offenders who would have been
incarcerated for their offences in the past
are now released into the, community
under conditional sentences,” said Cole-
man. He also said not all of the inmates
who were housed here were residents of
communities in this region.

That’s a response to one of the con-

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cerns raised hy Terrace mayor Jack Tal-
stra and the other regional district direc-
tors, who condemned the province’s deci-
sion to close the jail here.

Talstra worried it will be difficult for
northwest families to visit loved ones in
Prince George’s jail, where low-risk of-
fenders are housed alongside hardened
criminals.

Caleman, meanwhile, said the safety
of the surrounding communily must be
taken into account, too.

“] agree that an important considera-
tion in managing re-offending behaviour
is the support of an offender’s family and
friends, although that cannot be the sole
means by which we classify offenders.”

The regional district board also op-
posed the closure of the Terrace correc-

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and the pool of labour for local projects —

the centre provided.

The regional district has responded by
asking the minister to distribute correc-
tional facilities more evenly across the
province, rather than centralizing them in
larger towns and cities.

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