Credit to Author: Lori Culbert| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:00:38 +0000
Approximately 10 more former inmates have contacted lawyer who has filed a “representative action” lawsuit — similar to a class action — against now-retired guard Roderic David MacDougall and his former boss, the province of B.C.
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Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:16:15 +0000
The 200 civil cases filed in court against a former jail guard claim the alleged sexual abuse began four decades ago. The fight for many of those plaintiffs continues today.
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Credit to Author: Lori Culbert| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:03:06 +0000
200 former inmates of Oakalla, Alouette and other B.C. jails have filed civil claims in court alleging they were sexually abused when they were teenagers or young men incarcerated for relatively minor crimes.
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Credit to Author: Lori Culbert| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:19:47 +0000
We examined 100s of pages of court documents to tell a story that begins in 1976, about the alleged abuse of young inmates over two decades, and the continued fallout today. The four-part series next looks at who was impacted, how the system responded, and what is happening now.
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Credit to Author: Mack Lamoureux| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:24:46 +0000
The man, who was 14 at the time, was raped by five prisoners after a guard led him to a private cell during a judge-ordered visit in the 70s.
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