New Queen’s Legal Aid bail program reduces overcrowding in Quinte Detention Centre
Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, Ontario has the capacity to hold 19 women in its cells. When Jodie-Lee Primeau, Queen’s Legal Aid Review Counsel, first visited the prison, 29 women were being detained there.
The women were “triple-bunked”, meaning in each cell, two women shared a bunk bed, while...