VIDEO: Inmates Treated to Festive Cheer

December 23, 2011 09:00 AM in News • 2 Comments

Inmates housed at the Winnipeg Remand Centre received a visit from a group of carollers Thursday night.

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“Carolling With Conviction” brought out about 150 people to the facility at 141 Kennedy Street, made up of friends, families and some former prisoners. The group sang carols outside by candlelight before making their way to the Broadway Disciples United Church, where cookies and hot beverages were served.

“The holidays are a really, really rough time for people who are incarcerated,” said event organizer Jacquie Nicholson. “Everyone else is getting together with their families, and they (the inmates) are not.”

The carols performed were recorded and can be heard Christmas Day at 4 p.m. on CKUW 95.9 FM.

If the inmates didn’t hear the sounds of the season through the thick windows at the centre, they likely couldn’t miss seeing the fireworks going off outside. Shortly after the carollers left, someone set off several rounds of fireworks near the building.

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Anonymous

well if you didnt commit crimes, you wouldn`t be in prison and you could spend time with your family and friends.
Anonymous

Could your “argument” be any more boring and ignorant, the_young_man?

To begin with, the Remand holds people who haven’t yet even been tried. In our “justice” system that means they are not yet guilty. But perhaps you subscribe to The Sun school of non-thought and believe the police should also serve as judges?

And even if they are eventually deemed guilty, do you believe spending time away from their friends and families, instead locked in tiny cells with other accused, will somehow make them act differently in the future?

You owe it to yourself and society to read up on alternatives to incarceration.

Thanks for posting this, ChrisD. Glad someone took video, wish I could have been there.