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The Ontario government’s decision to close 26 youth custody centres as a cost-saving measure could result in a significant expense to the Timmins Police Service.
The two youth detention centres nearest to Timmins the MeeQuam Youth Residence in Cochrane and the Pinegar Youth Centre in Kirkland Lake are among those slated for closure as of April 30th.
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“These are two locations that were historically used by our local courts for the detention of youths from our community,” Timmins Police Insp. Darren Dinel stated in a report that was presented to the police services board on Thursday.
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Indigenous leaders are condemning what they describe as the sudden closure of several youth justice centres in northern Ontario, saying children and staff were traumatized after they were transferred to more distant facilities without proper notice.
In an open letter to Premier Doug Ford issued last week, the Grand Chiefs of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Grand Council Treaty #3 expressed their “collective horror” at the closures, which they said particularly affect youth from northern First Nations.
Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh said there will no longer be any such facilities – where youth between the ages of 12 and 17 are held as they await trial or serve their sentence for various offences – within hundreds of kilometres of northern First Nations.
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