Alberta Corrections News Today

Eighty-five prisoners from jails in the Northwest Territories are being transferred to Albertas correctional system as wildfires bear down on Yellowknife — one of the first times in Canadian history a natural disaster has forced a large-scale movement of prisoners between jurisdictions.

Effective immediately, job postings will no longer require job applicants seeking to become correctional peace officers (CPO) to be clean-shaven.

The provincial government has updated the rules for Albertas correctional services by allowing applicants to the agency to have facial hair for religious or medical reasons.

On Wednesday, there were at least 529 active COVID cases among inmates across the Alberta Corrections system, which includes eight adult jails and two youth centres.

Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Calgary.

Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Edmonton

As of Friday, at least a dozen staff and inmates had tested positive at the Edmonton Remand Centre, Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre and the Calgary Remand Centre.

As of Friday, at least a dozen staff and inmates had tested positive at the Edmonton Remand Centre, Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre and the Calgary Remand Centre.

As of Friday, at least a dozen staff and inmates had tested positive at the Edmonton Remand Centre, Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre and the Calgary Remand Centre.

Article content Locked in a cell all but a few minutes a day, Wayne Wilcox has to improvise to pass the time. “There’s a table that’s in my cell,” said Wilcox, an inmate at the Edmonton Remand Centre. “I drew a chessboard on there. Me and my cellmate play chess once in awhile.” With no access to game sets, he molded his own pieces using toilet paper and toothpaste. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Boredom, isolation and illness as COVID-...