Paul Bernardo: Prison officials stopped killer from making statement

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Newly released documents show that Correctional Service Canada stopped Paul Bernardo from having his lawyer make a statement to the media as controversy swirled around the notorious killer's transfer to a medium-security prison.

Bernardo was moved to La Macaza Institution, a medium-security prison about 190 kilometres northwest of Montreal, in late May from the maximum-security Millhaven Institution near Kingston, Ont.He is serving a life sentence for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, in the early 1990s near St. Catharines, Ont.

The email was released through an access-to-information request, and was part of a flurry of messages between prison system staff and the Privy Council Office, the part of the federal bureaucracy that supports the operations of the Prime Minister's Office. A spokesman for the correctional service said that it does not tell offenders not to speak to the media, but listed a general process it follows for considering interview requests, which includes ensuring it does not jeopardize an offender's correctional plan, or glorify their crimes.

"I don't know where they think they get the authority to do that. To me, it's exceeding their role as being in charge of the custody, rehabilitation and that sort of thing for prisoners."

 

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