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Quebec judge orders review of inmate's grievance over porn TV channels
A Federal Court judge has ordered a new review of a Quebec prisoner’s grievance over access to TV channels showing late-night pornography. Haris Naraine, 46, filed a complaint after corrections...
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Dustin Lombardi contesting first-degree murder charge in Lachine slaying
Dustin Lombardi, charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 24-year-old man in Lachine last December, will contest the charge and seek to have it reduced to second-degree murder. At the...
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N.D.G. man who forced minors to work as prostitutes nears parole date
A man serving a lengthy prison term for being the mastermind behind a sex-torture-prostitution ring involving runaway teenage girls is scheduled to leave a penitentiary soon, after having spent the...
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James Medley released to halfway house in eastern Montreal
A man who served nearly two decades behind bars for having beaten, raped and tortured runaway teenage girls in his Notre-Dame-de-Grâce apartment was released Friday to a halfway house in eastern...
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'I was provoked,' killer Fabrikant maintains at parole hearing
Having spent the past 23 years behind bars for murdering four of his colleagues at Concordia University over slights that existed only in his imagination has produced no change in Valery Fabrikant. The...
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Valery Fabrikant: A timeline
1979 — Valery Fabrikant immigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union and in December of that year was hired at Concordia University as a research assistant. 1980 -1988 — While working at Concordia,...
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Documents reveal Mafioso who died of cyanide poisoning in prison didn't...
A report obtained by the Montreal Gazette through Access to Information reveals Correctional Service Canada staff saw no signs that Mafioso Guiseppe De Vito was suicidal before he died of cyanide...
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Maurice Boucher implicated in prison stabbing: Report
Former Hells Angels boss Maurice “Mom” Boucher was involved in a stabbing at the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines prison earlier this week, according to published reports. Boucher and another inmate attacked a...
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A glimpse into the recent life of a man the Hells Angels would love to kill
Stéphane (Godasse) Gagné hasn’t been entirely a saint while preparing for his hearing, before a jury, where he is seeking an earlier chance at parole on his sentence for murdering a prison guard. In...
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Former Hells Angel told he can't sell real estate until sentence expires
A man who was once considered one of the most powerful Hells Angels in Quebec has been told he cannot deal in real estate while he continues to serve a lengthy sentence for conspiring to murder rival...
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Impaired driver who killed elderly woman gets day parole
A West Island man who killed an elderly woman while driving impaired has been granted day parole on the sentence he received three years ago. On Feb. 21, 2012, Yvan Grandmaison, 44, consumed a...
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Coming court cases for Maurice (Mom) Boucher pose security challenges
Two criminal cases brought against Maurice (Mom) Boucher, one of Quebec’s most notorious criminals, pose potential logistical nightmares for provincial prison guards who will transfer the former Hells...
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Cowansville prison inmate dies
A 30-year-old inmate of Cowansville prison convicted of murdering a member of his extended family in 2004 was found unresponsive in his cell Friday and later declared dead. Jonathan Finnamore, 30, was...
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Heroin trafficker dies while he begins serving sentence in federal penitentiary
Correctional Service Canada announced Friday a 38-year-old inmate who began serving a seven-year sentence only weeks ago died at a penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines. Frédérick Mineau died Thursday...
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Man convicted of second-degree murder dies in Archambault prison
A coroner and Correctional Service Canada will investigate the circumstances surrounding the death on Wednesday of a 56-year-old inmate of Archambault Institution in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines. Ronald Jette,...
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