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Article content Project D.A.R.E and Nipissing Detention Centre will see their doors permanently close on April 30. The two facilities are among more than two dozen youth detention facilities closing across the province as a cost-saving measure following multiple auditor general reports highlighting the large number of empty open and secure custody beds. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Province to shut down Project D.A.R.E. in South River Back to vi...

Article content In the provincial government’s attempt to save $39.9 million annually “to improve services we offer youths” they have inadvertently gutted programming at Ininew Friendship Centre and negated cultural help for youth in the region. An announcement last Monday to cease operations of 26 youth detention facilities in the province sent executive members of the Friendship Centre scrambling to inform upwards of 22 staff and residents of Mee-Quam of the impending closure of the fac...