Nunavut officials confirm community spread as COVID-19 hits Iqaluit jails, medical boarding home in Arctic Canada
All four people who tested positive are now isolated in a unit in Baffin Correctional Centre Nunavut’s chief public health
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Baffin Correctional Centre
Inmates in Northern Canada jail denounce unfair punishments through ‘kangaroo court’
Prisoners at Nunavut’s biggest jail say they’re being unfairly punished for breaking jail rules by an internal court that doesn’t
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Journalist barred from jails in Canada’s east-Arctic wants ban quashed
A Nunavut journalist is trying to reverse a government decision to ban him from all of the territory’s jails, by
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Inmates in Northern Canadian jail say conditions deteriorating since June riot
WARNING: This story contains some explicit language Some inmates at the Baffin Correctional Centre say conditions have gotten worse for
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Prison in Canada’s eastern Arctic ‘appalling’ and should be closed, report says
The current state of disrepair and overcrowding at the Baffin Correctional Centre in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s eastern
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