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For Immediate Release - April 7, 2014 The Alberta Ministry of Just...ice and Solicitor General have told the Kainai Correctional Centre Society (KCCS) that it is cutting the funding for the correctional centre resulting in 12 employees to lose their jobs and the loss of a correctional centre on-reserve for minimum security inmates. The closure was effective April 1, 2014. For 25 years the Kainai Correctional Centre (KCC) has housed minimum-security inmates providing rehabilitation measures using a holistic approach. In 2010, the same Alberta Government Department again attempted to shut down KCC but Blood Tribe officials were successful in lobbing the Alberta Government to keep the centre open by changing to a temporary absence facility. During the last four years, the Alberta Government has continually reduced the number of inmates assigned to KCC and now contend it is “under utilized”. Despite recent lobbying efforts by Blood Tribe Officials, KCCS is being forced to close the 24?bed facility and limit its services to Probation, Court Workers, Elders Program and Crime Prevention.

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