One is the requirement that judges consider an offender’s aboriginal heritage, and the disadvantages it may have created, when imposing sentences. Healing lodges are minimum security facilities. RelatedHealing lodges are minimum security facilities. They are not designed or staffed for the kind of full-time, round-the-clock security that dangerous offenders require. Allowing dangerous offenders like Moosomin to escape from minimum security environments threatens public confidence in a program that, properly run, could prove helpful, even transformative.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 18:00 UTC