Inside one of Canada’s most decrepit prisons: Baffin Correctional Centre in Iqaluit – CBC

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May 18, 2015

Despite improvements, Iqaluit facility remains one of Canada’s worst prisons

The sentence once carved into the door was probably the most succinct orientation new prisoners ever received to Nunavut’s notorious Baffin Correctional Centre in Iqaluit.

“It said, ‘Welcome to hell,”‘ recalled guard Susan Idlout. “When that door closes and you see that, you don’t feel so good.”

It’s all been removed by a $900,000 renovation that is cleaning up the prison’s pervasive mould, its broken fire sprinklers, its punched-out walls, its uncleanable bathrooms. A new building next door has eased overcrowding and prisoners no longer bunk down in the gym.

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