Contractor announced for Correctional Centre, Kenora Jail expansions – Tbnewswatch.com
Projects focus on Indigenous justice issues and also includes $979,911 for Thunder Bay’s joint mobile crisis team and a similar amount for the city’s Project River Safety and Health Initiative.
THUNDER BAY – Ontario’s solicitor general says a contractor has been chosen to complete expansion infrastructure projects at both the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre and the Kenora Jail.
Sylvia Jones on Thursday announced Bird Construction Inc. is expected to complete the work at the two facilities.
Highlights include an Indigenous bail and remand program to decrease the need for pre-trial custody of Indigenous people, a Indigenous restorative justice program to strengthen cultural identity and reduce future involvement with the judicial system and a justice centre in Kenora to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the local justice system.
