‘We’ll stand 100 per cent with the folks of Northwest Ontario,’ Solicitor Basic Michael Kerzner mentioned.
THUNDER BAY – Solicitor Basic Michael Kerzner made a visit to Thunder Bay on Monday.
The journey’s function was for Kerzner to see the progress of the development for the brand new correctional centre in Thunder Bay for himself.
“We’re investing over $1.2 billion proper right here in Thunder Bay,” Kerzner mentioned. “There are lots of of building jobs which are right here serving to construct a state-of-the-art 345 mattress facility to assist hold Ontario secure.
“I’ll tour our facility and I need to firstly give a shout out to the correctional officers which are working very onerous right here. They’re a part of our pillar of public security and I simply need to test in on them and inform them how a lot I respect the good work they’re doing to maintain Ontario secure.”
Kerzner mentioned this new facility can have programming areas, areas that mirror tradition and have extra alternatives for folks to be taught in this system to finally reintegrate again to our communities and achieve this safely.
“One of many issues that we do is a part of our neighborhood reintegration and we depend on the chaplains and we depend on the native inmate liaison officers . . . we depend on the people who do the programming in order that the talents and the packages that they attend right here will assist put together them for neighborhood reintegration,” Kerzner added.
“At the top of the day when that occurs, we scale back the charges of recidivism again into our communities. That is a objective that we have now.”
The correctional officers are the pillar of public security and officers will all the time have their backs, he mentioned.
“We are going to all the time help them in any method that we will. And I’ve an incredible relationship with the locals right here, with the native presidents right here. I come to see them as a part of my go to,” Kerzner mentioned.”
“Their concerns to our government are important and that’s exactly why we will continue to invest in their mental well being to make sure that they know that our government led by Premier Ford cares about them and we care about our public safety morning, noon and night.”
Kerzner additionally mentioned there are a selection of packages being labored on to assist with first responders psychological properly being.
“Our message is simple. We care about our first responders. We care about our correctional officers and their mental well being and we’ll do everything that we can through the resources to make sure that that they know there’s help available to them.”
Officers are additionally trying on the capability in Northwestern Ontario, Kerzner mentioned.
“That is why we’re including the 345 beds along with what we have now. That is why we introduced our new modular construct proper right here on this property, 60 new beds. That is why we have expanded one other modular construct in Kenora,” he added.
“We’re persevering with to have a look at our capability numbers and Northwestern Ontario and we’ll proceed to evaluate it.”
