Investigation, cleanup underway after riot at Saskatchewan Penitentiary
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan prison where a riot took place this week had the most complaints of any penitentiaries in the country last year, says Canada’s prisoners’ ombudsman.
One inmate was killed and eight others hurt — six of them when corrections officers fired their guns in an effort to get the situation under control.
Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada, said there were 413 complaints from inmates at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert.
“It is an institution that has had some concerns and those concerns manifest in several ways, and one of the ways is in the number of complaints to my office,” Sapers said Friday.