Pictures of her partying at the Joliette women's prison caused a public furore last fall. The death of an inmate 10 years ago got her a second-degree murder conviction and a life sentence, although some say it was a suicide case that should be reopened. It is barbaric . . . This ain't our prison . . . They should have left Kingston open.
Nobody listens to the Arbour commission.
Staff say they must weather endless verbal and frequent physical abuse from inmates and the most troubled women won't improve until they want to. That's because the conditions exceed fair punishment, says Suzette Peters, an inmate at Springhill. I deserve to be penalized for what I've done . . . I feel like I'm warehoused . . . Ed McIsaac, the ombudsman who investigates federal inmates' complaints, blames a correctional service that still largely operates in a vacuum.