This comes as corrections officers plan to protest the system currently in place in some prisons, a needle exchange that sees fresh needles distributed to inmates
EDMONTON — The first supervised drug injection site in the federal corrections system is expected to open as early as the end of June at the penitentiary in Drumheller, Alta., according to the union representing federal correctional officers.
However, Jeff Wilkins, national president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, said his organization has been told it will be in place by month’s end. As it stands, inmates are given needles in their cells and it’s the responsibility of correctional officers to distribute them. Wilkins said this isn’t solving the problem of needle sharing, and that as harm reduction “is in fact a health-care issue,” a more effective program would include overdose-prevention sites staffed by health-care workers.
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