La Macaza Institution specializes in providing treatment to sex offenders and almost two-thirds of the inmates held there have been convicted of a sexual offence.
Bernardo, who has been serving a life sentence for kidnapping, torturing and killing 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s near St. Catharines, Ont., was quietly transferred to La Macaza Institution, a medium-security prison about 190 kilometres northwest of Montreal, last week.
In a statement on Monday, the Correctional Service of Canada said its commissioner Anne Kelly was reviewing Bernardo's security classification to ensure it was "appropriate, evidence based, and more importantly, adequately considered victims." Jean Proulx of the Université de Montréal said in a phone interview Monday that although the public fury was understandable, Bernardo's transfer is not shocking.
He says violent sex offenders are often transferred to La Macaza to begin more treatment as they near their eligibility for parole after spending about 20 years in maximum security. "He will have a treatment and very detailed assessment of his level of risk," said the professor, who has written three books about sexual murderers.
"They will have much more information to judge his level of risk and make a good, valuable decision as to the possibility of a conditional release." "We understand Canadians want to know reasons for such transfers," it further said, adding that security classifications are based on "risk to public safety, escape risk, an offender's institutional adjustment," as well as other considerations.
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