Correctional Service ‘abdicating’ responsibility in Quebec woman’s murder, say critics of response to internal report

The killing of Marylène Lévesque by a parolee in January 2020 was a ‘catastrophic failure, which is tantamount to a wrongful death,’ says prison watchdog Ivan Zinger.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the death was a ‘terrible tragedy’ that should ‘never have happened.’ The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

January 21, 2021

The Correctional Service of Canada has promised to strengthen its community supervision policies after an internal report found it missed a number of warning signs before a parolee killed a woman—a respon...

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