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Hard time in hell
Gangs are in control, inmates are armed and the threat of violence is omnipresent at Stony Mountain Institution By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, May. 14, 2021
They call it Murder Mountain.
Every unit of the prison is infested with gangs. Drugs are potent and easy to score. Inmates walk around armed with hidden shanks. Beatings and stabbings are a common occurrence. Homicides follow hangings, and hangings follow homicides.
Dead bodies pile up with disturbing regularity.
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CSC works with an increasingly diverse and complex offender population, including Security Treat Groups (STG), and has a number of strategies in place to manage and reduce violent incidents in our institutions. We do not tolerate violence of any form and incidences of violence can lead to disciplinary action or
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Man acquitted of murder, accessory charges in killing of fellow Stony Mountain inmate
A man accused of helping plan the “cold, calculated and senseless” murder of a fellow inmate at Stony Mountain Institution last year, and later hiding the murder weapon to cover it up, has been acquitted of both charges, says the written decision from the judge.
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Posted: Dec 28, 2020 6:40 AM CT | Last Updated: December 28, 2020
Aaron Michael Ducharme admitted in court to taking the shank used to kill Adrian Fillion and hiding it in a garbage can, but said he made the decision under duress and had no other choice, Manitoba Court of Queen s Bench Justice Shauna McCarthy wrote in a Dec. 16 decision.(Kelly Malone/CBC)