Outrage grows over Paul Bernardo\u0027s transfer to \u0022open campus\u0022 prison
In 2021, Bernardo failed to win any increased freedoms in his second parole hearing. At his first, in 2018, he proposed conditional release to the Collins Bay facility near Millhaven. “No one’s asking to be let out the door today,” Bernardo said.
Correctional Services Canada said medium-security prisons have many of the same security controls as maximum security prisons, such as high fences, armed guards and controlled inmate movement. Bernardo has been the target of “actual and threatened assaults” by other inmates, according to Parole Board records, and was even once the apparent target of a small riot at Kingston Penitentiary, when five inmates rushed a guard at the entrance to the segregation unit, tried to take his keys, and had to be put down with tear gas and a large security response, with Bernardo himself rushed away by guards to safety.
“After eight years of this Liberal government failure to keep violent offenders locked up, it is outrageous that one of the worst serial killers in our history is leaving maximum-security prison under Trudeau’s watch,” Dancho said. “The government should review any powers it has to reverse this ridiculous decision. Mr. Bernardo is a monster and he belongs in maximum security,” Poilievre said.
Tim Danson, a lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families, has said the Correctional Service of Canada informed him after the fact of the transfer last week, and declined to provide any other information. Danson has condemned the secrecy around Bernardo’s transfer.
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