It’s not the first time a victim’s family has raised concerns about an inmate being sent to a healing lodge. Okimaw Ohci, the Saskatchewan healing lodge where McClintic has been transferred, was the first such healing lodge to open, in 1995. Of Canada’s nine Aboriginal healing lodges, all are minimum-security facilities except for the two lodges for women offenders, which also accept medium-security inmates. The victims’ family was outraged, telling Global News that the “consequences aren’t there” for offenders sent to healing lodges. At the time, Sen. Kim Pate, former executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, said healing lodges are still considered prisons.

Source: National Post September 26, 2018 23:01 UTC