The Labrador Correctional Center in Happy Valley Goose Bay is getting $1Million for expansion to house female inmates.
According to the Labradorian; The LCC can have a maximum capacity of 53 inmates.
The governing Liberals put aside $1 million dollars to expand the Labrador Correctional Facility.
This will increase the capacity for female inmates who have had to be sent to Newfoundland cells.
This change would allow inmates to be jailed in a location closer to their families and loved ones.
During protests outside the gates of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric megaproject in 2016, RCMP arrested a number of demonstrators.
Because there is limited capacity for keeping people in custody in Goose Bay, some of the women arrested were sent to St. John’s to be held in Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, a provincial jail for men that often houses violent criminals serving federal sentences.
That move prompted demonstrations outside the aging prison from people who were appalled that the women were flown out of Labrador and to St. John’s.
One of those inmates was Beatrice Hunter, whose family took part in the protests.
Supporters of Beatrice Hunter gathered outside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in June 2017, while she was incarcerated inside.