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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 14:01:51 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Brunswick man asks for return of prisoner to community
New Brunswick Band asks for return of prisoner to community
Saturday, October 09, 1999
Native band seeks to bring killer home
Police express 'grave concerns'
Susanne Hiller National Post
An aboriginal community in New Brunswick has asked the federal government
to release a convicted murderer into its care.
Claudine Daigle, regional spokeswoman with Corrections Canada, said the St.
Mary's First Nation in Fredericton had applied to a new program under
Section 81 of the National Corrections and Conditions Release Act. The
program allows reserves to provide their own correctional services to
aboriginal offenders and to be reimbursed for looking after the
individuals. "An agreement for the program has been reached in principle,"
she said yesterday. "But this does not
mean any individual offenders have been approved for release."
Chief Mac Carlisle of the Fredericton Police Force was recently told that
St. Mary's has applied to bring home convicted killer Jonathan Paul under
the program. The reserve is located in the middle of
the city. "We have grave concerns about the possible release of this man,"
said Corporal David Moore. "This was a violent, brutal, horrific crime and
he has served only nine years of his sentence. St. Mary's does not have a
facility to hold him and we feel he is a danger to the reserve and the
surrounding community of Fredericton."
Paul, 29, is serving a life sentence with no eligibility for parole in an
Atlantic prison for his 1990 conviction in the sexual assault and murder of
Patricia Bradley in Fredericton. The controversial program started in
February and is meant to enhance the roles of aboriginal communities in
correctional services by allowing native inmates to live on reserves, said
Gina Wilson, director of aboriginal issues for Corrections Canada. This is
the first application from the Atlantic Canada region, she said. Agreements
have already been reached and carried out with the native reserves in other
provinces. The Native Counselling Service in Alberta has a lodge that is
currently holding 20 offenders. The offenders who have been transferred so
far are considered to be at a low risk to reoffend, she said. A reserve
would have to set up a team of community leaders, police and social workers
to develop a plan for the released inmate, she said. Patricia Bradley was
beaten to death in her Fredericton apartment. She was found with a face cloth
stuffed in her mouth. Paul and Bradley's 18-year-old son, Walter, had been
drinking and bar-hopping the night of her murder. Walter Bradley said he
woke up the next morning to find his mother dead and Paul missing. Paul and
his family have maintained he was wrongfully convicted.
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