Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free Mateti Kenora jail labelled a Deb Tor prison if Many spend time them for non Aymat of fines for minor liquor Law transgressions to Lurry my at least two native groups have taken to calling it the the Ettara jails nickname which roughly Means native in the ojibway Points to the striking number of men and women lodged there because they Haven paid Many of which Are for Public drunkenness slightly fewer than half of the 113 inmates in the jail one Day last week were there on nonpayment of said Bev the minimum jail term for payment of a Public drunkenness Fine is four but the time for several f can build up to a month w she one native spokes Man who used to work with inmates at the jail said some spend twice that time behind bars for such of that sort of a sore said but the who began work there As a guard in responds Mattero factly to the there Given so much time to pay those she i feel they have plenty of time to make some Effort to have the Fine such an Effort would save court and jail officials a lot of has said last a Man waged a Brief hunger strike at the she Johnston disclose further details about the strike and claimed r there was no reason for i pointed out the stupid Ness of it and the prisoner stopped his she first woman when Johnston was promoted last december from her position As acting she became the first woman officially in charge of an Ontario jail for men and she plays Down the claiming she likes to run an easygoing institution for the prisons 44 guards and 33 other staff George acting assistant superintendent at the suggests laughingly that staff training should include a viewing of one flew Over the cuckoos the which deals with the adventures of a rebellious patient in an Asylum run by an autocratic could remind guards How fragile humane attitudes can become in ins Titu said i think it should be a must for anybody working in an institution like this As part of staff he you can get youve got to remind yourself daily that they inmates Are Johnston says Many of the for whom there Are Beds for men in a maximum Security Range and 53 Beds for women placed under medium View the jail As a Home away from Home Munfor not Only does the institution Harbor a High proportion of but Johnston says Shir sees Many inmates who Are the a Hildrets of grandchildren of other inmates Shes known Johnston said she makes prison rounds every enjoys dealing directly with inmates and likes the Challenge of having to make spot Sions in situations of serving not Only As a place for a mfr Vincini and criminal code offenders but also As a demand Centre for those awaiting court the jail sometimes has an inmate population As High As a study of 119 provincial offenders in the jail during i claimed to refute the longstanding myth that offenders my to be in jail because they get the proverbial three Solars Bev Johnston of the Kenora first woman appointed to such a Post in meals a Day and a place to the report said 38 per cent of those jailed for defaulting on Fine payments and pet cent of those directly sentenced to jail for provincial fences would prefer to do Community work instead of going to unlike does not have a program allowing offenders to pay their fines by working for ble made Public in january of this tailed the Aniel Nabe debtors on Aid written for the Ontario live Council on the report said imprisonment Doest deter quor almost All native almost 70 per cent of the Fine defaulters and 96 per cent of the others jailed on provincial offences had been incarcerated at least twice during the proceeding year for liquor written by Joe executive director of Kenora Neches Friend ship and Stan director of policy and program development for the Ontario native Council on the report made several other although native people constitute about 44 per cent of the people in the District of Al most All provincial offenders in the jail were of native imprisonment for minor liquor of fences has an almost exclusive Impact on native people and raises nagging questions about the use of police the sentencing practices of the provincial offences court and the Wisdom of making Public intoxication an said the re for a Small jail lacking the facilities of full sized correctional ins Titu we try to do the Best we can with the resources we the jail operates on a yearly budget of about officials Esti mate it will Cost a Day to Lodge prisoners there this compared with a provincial average of prisoners have daily Access to a Small but most of the female prisoners dont exercise at said some other activities include Bead leather work and Church As the prison has had a native worker on staff since he coun Sels native helps them find Legal representation and apply for takes messages to and from their families and arranges for Law Indian leaders and others to talk to Remote Northern communities push for local autonomy Thompson staff establishing Legal boundaries around Remote communities will open the door to real local the president of the Northern association of Community councils said de former mayor of nor Way said association officials discussed the Issue during a Daylong conference with Northern affairs min ister Jay Cowan and the association have been reviewing about 50 department policy guidelines during the last few once these boundaries Are drawn it will give Community councils the Legal right to pass binding resold Campbell this would mean that we could pass and enforce garbage and other he could not legally enforce dog bylaws even though packs of dogs were menacing their Cowan said his department is draw ing up criteria for the Boundary setting which will be presented at the associations convention next the association represents 45 Remote communities organized under the provincial Northern affairs Campbell said a number of restrictions removed during the guide line now it is possible for a Community Council to go directly to another Cabinet minister or depart ment with a problem without referring to Northern he another improvement will allow the councils to commit their communities to Long Range plans for the construction of capital such As the instal lation of sewage and water close spurs fear in Kenum Byan Dyblie Maytene wat Hal in Moor As a Seffle railed went of flipped on its Side fld Slid t6w9fd the ear she and two other Kenera fief Tofig Home employees were getting it was earning around the 1 i could see it said the who with two colleagues was going Home fed Fol work at about thursday night when the Accident of if it want far the tree that was there we would have been the incident was the latest mishap on the Tran Canada Highway outside the Birchwood Terrace nursing Home where90 elderly residents have begun to fear for their said Nina administrator of the accidents on the stretch of Highway include a fatality last and another incident in which a nursing Home resident was struck by a vehicle while trying to Cross the if that would have been a Gas instead of carrying apples there would have been an Petit i hazardous the nursing Home employees and the Kenora police agree the curve West of town that passes in front of the nursing Home is weve been waiting for something serious to said last year there was a cattle trip ctr that went Over Kenora mayor Kelvin Winkler said it will be 1988 or 1990 before a new bypass affects the stretch of weve tried modifying it to the Best we he adding a should Der of the Highway has been paved so pedestrians will be More while Crews worked yesterday to move the the nursing Home employees were still the Trio would have been hit by the trailer had they not decided to change seating positions at the last Sveinsson said the three women had just got into the but had not yet begun to move when she glanced in the direction of the woman faints by the time i yelled get out the truck flipped and it was sliding towards the trailer portion Slid Down an embankment and the whole Back end just fell Over and it Slid quite a Dis the trailer slammed into a tree and came to rest on the nursing Home we would have been Sveinsson we pull out that nurses aide Wanda Mash said she fainted after seeing the trailer sweep ing toward Ive never Felt such fear in my she adding the trailer came to rest no More than three metres 10 feet from the in shaking even i just cant get Over How Lucky we the next time some of us wont be so the nursing Home workers would like to see warning signs erected and the Speed reduced on the stretch of weather City Calendar Winnipeg Library to feature childrens films Soh Lake cily 70 n Francisco h Patti Pillion h High u Low Prei Hurt front warm front the Winnipeg Centennial Library childrens film pro Gram Ages six to 12 features getting the the one Kitten for and hardware from 2 to 3 the Manitoba museum of Man and nature will show the films the nature of and building a at tuesday in the Manitoba planetarium 190 admission the Winnipeg Art gallery will hold an Art drop in program from 1 to 4 tuesday to thursday for children aged six to there will be a 50cent charge for and children must be accompanied by an the Manitoba museum of Man and nature presents the Slid tape unions in Central Given by two former Cuso at thursday in the Manitoba planetarium admission the salvation army heritage Park Temple drama group presents the easter the Power and the at 4 and 8 Friday at 825 school our mistake a Story March 17 said wrongly that City Council had recommended spending in City and provincial funds to preserve nine wooden artefacts dug up in Bonnycastle in the is part of the estimated Cost of preserving other artefacts from the a Rheological no estimate was available on the Cost of preserving the nine wooden now in storage in the Federal government is expected to pay for preserving the nine b classified death Wii Umipeg area forecast Clearing this afternoon with diminishing North Clear sunny highs both Days near 4low tonight near probability of precipitation is 90 per cent near 0 tonight and Manitoba variable flurries temperatures near Normal above Normal tuesday and Normal High is Normal Low is Northern Manitoba mainly sunny variable cloudiness tuesday and temperatures a bit below Normal above Normal tuesday and Normal High is 4 Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario variable cloudiness monday and sunny temperatures remaining near Normal values of i and Dauphin Thunder Bay Toronto Montreal Halifax min 3 3 9 0 16 16 14 8 Minneapolis York Amsterdam Athens 3 3 1 3 i 2 2 4 2 i i 2 6 21 5 2 16 9 m 12 5 a Pine 18 13 Stockholm 6 i Aviv 19 11 fair Las partly partly Elev by Clear Clear Clear showers fair 4 1 2 5 3 15 0 0 w 5 16 14 16 10 19 10 31 22 19 12 20 13 24 17 24 18 fair 31 23 fair 30 24 26 19 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean Marco 12 90 in 1945 w geteral in 1923 of i to Marcut k Dorothy of formerly of Portage la wife of Roy Gordon of Camp husband of Dorothy Mildred widow of Henry John band of a Oldie of Stark 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