News Items tag as: Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre

Union blames low pay for high turnover of guards at provincial prisons
January 11, 2018 - 8:00 PM

The province’s jails are facing some challenges when it comes to recruiting and maintaining staff levels as the union representing correction officers pushes for higher wages.
“I was high for my entire stay:” Why B.C. prisons aren’t helping addicts
October 13, 2017 - 6:30 PM

His parents thought a few months in jail would force him to sober up. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Kamloops RCMP recommending charges in assault against hit and run suspect
March 13, 2017 - 4:12 PM

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP is recommending charges in connection to an alleged assault at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre last week.
HIT AND RUN: Accused in crash that killed Kamloops teen assaulted in prison
March 10, 2017 - 12:57 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man charged in connection to a fatal hit and run that killed a 16-year-old girl last year has been assaulted in prison.
Muslim inmate's discrimination complaint against Kamloops prison will be heard
February 27, 2017 - 4:30 PM

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Prison violence on the rise at KRCC and other jails prompts union to take action
November 11, 2016 - 8:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - Violence in B.C. prisons has risen by nearly 40 per cent and the union representing correctional officers says it will continue to do so until understaffing is addressed.
KRCC, correctional facilities in B.C. will soon be equipped with naloxone to combat fentanyl
November 04, 2016 - 3:37 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - A potentially life-saving drug for overdose patients will be introduced to prisons across B.C. and staff will begin learning how to administer it next week.
How B.C.'s fentanyl crisis is affecting the safety of prisoners, guards
November 02, 2016 - 2:30 PM

NANAIMO SHERIFF TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER EXPOSURE TO DRUG
Kamloops jail, university provide trades training to inmates
January 19, 2016 - 10:30 AM

KAMLOOPS - Six inmates have already obtained the skills training needed to help gain entry-level work in construction thanks to a joint pilot program with B.C. Corrections and Thompson Rivers University.
Woman who attempted to smuggle drugs to Kamloops inmate gets jail after squandering second chance
December 10, 2015 - 2:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman who tried to smuggle drugs to her boyfriend in jail will serve a six-month jail sentence after leaving the drug rehabilitation program the courts ordered her to complete.
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JONESIE: The blurred lines from a surprise guilty plea to murder
OPINION When Kelowna’s Jay Thomson pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his common-law partner in 2013, justice may have been served, but the truth certainly wasn’t. Without any examination of evidence