Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free april Healing Lodge to Aid natives continued from Page 1 it said they Are More danger Ous to themselves than anyone most have been sexually or physically come from poor families and have limited skills and the report concludes these women do not need imprison but counselling and sup High emphasis should be placed on programs which address physical and sexual abuse mental health and Addic Tion needs of the need for More marketable and the requirement for positive Contact Between women and their the report it notes that two thirds of the in mates about 100 women Are kept from their children by the prison due for parole Courchene said the proposed changes would happen too late to help she is due for parole in december As to the other if the recommendations go it will help she i Hope this will be a positive step for the native women in the there Are no native programs we need elders coming in we need to rehabilitate our Courchene said she Hopes to return to Brandon after making parole to become a native youth i will be going Back to Mani Toba because my family is she the native Centre proposed in the report would be different from the other regional which would be located in Hali southwestern on Edmonton and British co the aboriginal Healing Lodge would be located in Manitoba or Saskatchewan and be staffed Al most completely by i Hope this is not just another Courchene they Are opening a door of Hope and i just Hope they dont shut we had enough doors dont drop us Back the government is pulling us a bit i Hope they keep on because then there will be less native people in but As Courchene made her Ole commissioner of correctional was Tell ing a news conference he wants to study the expensive proposals in relation to other departmental the reasons that this task Force is giving for wanting the Kingston facility closed Are very valid and but on the other we live in the real world and in order to make the final decision we will have to compare it with other Priori Ingstrup nowhere in the 150page report is Cost Federal officials said the Kingston women prison employs about 130 people and costs about million a year to in addition to the lon term Call for new the report listed eight immediate emergency measures the government should implement at the where two women committed suicide last the report Calls for the Federal government to immediately Stop transferring women from outside Ontario into the Kingston begin recruiting native and other encourage and fund family visits and improve the prisons living victims take Stern line continued from Page 1 should be 10 not two said Darlene executive director of the Manitoba division of victims of a group set up and run primarily by parents of murdered not prisoners rights groups voice the opposite arguing the majority of inmates should not be in prison in the first place and doing away with parole will simply make inmates even More dangerous when they finally Are the More we put people into prisons and throw away the the worse off were going to its a negative so of course when we release them from it theres going to be a negative reaction towards so said Len presi Dent of the John Howard society Manitoba Sawatsky urged putting More Money and More Effort into devel Oping Community based pro Grams that hold the accused accountable to the we need to take a More constructive approach than simply Locking them away in he argued that 75 per cent of inmates in Canadas prisons could be released to Community programs without posing a threat to the idea of emptying the prison system does not sit Well with police they say the existing parole system should be with More and stricter supervision of parolees and no second chances for those who skip out or commit other crimes while on not Good enough there be any second or third said Winnipeg police chief Herb also head of the Canadian association of chiefs of a vocal and powerful advocate of parole re its not Good enough to let these Guys Back on the streets if Treyve already demonstrated they cant be trusted he inmates can get parole even after having it revoked for tech Nical skipping out or committing crimes on in april a Man serving a life murder sentence at Stony Mountain Penitis tertiary was the subject of a huge manhunt after he failed to return from an unsupervised which was granted by the National parole Board even though he had already escaped from prison fled a prison farm and failed to return from a Day Reform dropped the Man was caught about a week but the incident sparked a Public outcry and a Call for parole Reform by Manitoba my Felix Holtmann Tage Holtmann Call was answered two months later when the Feder Al government unveiled a parole Reform package in june but the reforms still have not been implemented and critics wonder whether they Ever in a statement june the solicitor general James Kel Leher unveiled plans to Over haul the parole system by forcing inmates to spend More time Beh ing bars at least half their sen tence or 10 whichever came first being Eligi ble for after Kelleher was Defeated in the november Pierre Cadieux was appointed solicitor spokesmen for neither the parole Board nor Ca Dieux office seem to know what became of the Sawatsky said the package was doomed from the Start it adopted Only part of the 1987 Archambault Royal commissions recommendations on parole he Kelleher took out the part about keeping violent offend ers in longer and ignored All the other recommendations about setting up alternatives such As Community rather than prison terms for less serious Sawatsky paper pointers i gets some pointers on working with paper from his Zhou at the Manitoba childrens museum the japanese consulate and the Manitoba japanese Canadian citizens sponsored the japanese cultural which featured origami workshops and the Sakura As Well As toy and photo freed hostage expresses concern for fellow captives continued from Page 1 Germany for questioning and a med ical exam before he returns to the United officials in a syrian to Polhill said he was grateful to those who helped but added in still deeply concerned about my two friends and others who Are still held in the conditions i was held Polhill said he played cards with other hostages during his Captivity and tried to keep his mind off the possibility of i strive to continue to be knowing at All times that if i began to lose that anger i would just sort of become a vegetable and i didst want that to Polhill could talk Only in a Low i am this is As High As my voice can during our we were prevented from speaking and i am unable to adjust my voice to the syrian to footage showed Polhill being driven through sitting in the Back of a car and puffing heavily on a he appeared drawn after his Long or Deal and smiled wanly several at his news gaunt and said he was too tired to answer any questions about seven other hostages or his Captivity by the pro iranian islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine since seventeen Western hostages re main missing in including seven from the a professor of business studies and accounting at Beirut University and two other Jesse Turner and Alann were held by the the release followed a series of communiques from the shiite mus Lim pol Hills Ruth Polhill of was overjoyed at the release and said she hoped to see her son when he returns to the United maybe ill have control of myself by that she told guards outside the Summerland who witnessed the release said pol Hill appeared thin and hunched As he stepped out of a car that screeched to a halt in a Street about 50 metres from the he was immediately picked up by a three car syrian Convoy and driven off at High the last american hostage to be freed was David former director of the american University Hospital in he was kid napped in Beirut May was released in Libya foam mar Qadhafi called for the release of hostages in an Appeal to muslims around the the official libyan news Agency Jana said in a Dis Patch about an hour after the reported i once All those who Are holding hostages to release them in fulfilment and application of the tolerant islamic the Agency quoted Qadhafi As in where president Bush is White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the called on All parties to free the remaining Earth Day fair educational for thousands continued from Page 1 several thousand tiny Spruce Trees being Given away by the Manitoba forestry its a great educational in the roving musicians entertained the crowds with songs about cleaning up lifestyles in order to preserve the a Winnipeg father said he had discovered alternatives to disposable diapers and Learned about the importance of using biodegradable its really great and Long Over Rick Saydack said As he wandered through the fair with his wife Lorraine and Fivey Earold daughter a representative of a family run Winnipeg paper recycling company called Franscott said he was swamped with questions about How to set up office a company called the soap fac tory gave out More than Sam Ples of an environmentally Sensi Tive stain a representative of the business but some Consumers were clearly confused by the proliferation of Green products on the at a first floor a crowd of people plied environmentalists with questions about their sign criticizing a so called environmentally Friendly detergent sold at a Large Winnipeg grocery this product int biodegrade a member of an organization called links pointing at a phosphate free people feel cheated when they find out because Treyve been buy ing another links member criticized the fairs organizers for allowing ice Cream and drinks to be sold in foam plastic there still even if they dont have rfcs Chloro Fluor John Miller some groups didst want to be a part of this fair because of the corporations that were being Al Lowed to for he some peo ple at the fair didst understand Why a producer of disposable plastic foam was allowed to set up a Amoco spokesman Ken Sweet admitted the of free products end up in garbage dumps in Manitoba be cause there int the volume to set up recycling Here but Gartner said the company was allowed to participate because it has taken the initiative to begin recycling waste foam in the anyone who appeared to be re aware and caring was allowed to take she Earth Day organizers agonized Over what guidelines should be established for retailers serving drinks and food in foam Gartner Polhill very Happy f eebmcip48 crashes in week continued from Page 1 Are searching for the Jet at the sight of the the fighter Jet is part of the 441 tactical fighter Squadron based at cab cold its deployed operating base is cab Martinsen said the second cf18 was not in visual Contact with the first one when it went she also said there no radio warning of a she said three planes and a search and Rescue helicopter were at the crash the Accident is the second in less than a week involving last two of the Canadian forces supersonic jets collided and crashed near West Ger killing one of the pilots and injuring the since when delivery of the fighters began at least 11 crashes have been reported with at least six it was the fourth Accident involving a Canadian forces cf18 this and the second crash of one of the High performance jets from cab Comox in two including the latest 12 of Canadas cf18s have been Des troyed in leaving the air Force with 126 of the original 138 another plane was damaged in an Accident on the ground but was All but one Accident have been blamed on human the crash of two of the jets in West Germany last week along with two crashes in Canada earlier this year has fuelled Calls for a review of the plane and How the Canadian forces use the two jets in West Germany were involved in Airt air combat training when they one of the pilots the other two people on the ground were Hurt when debris from the collision rained Down on on a cf18 crashed in in the Northwest killing the 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