Female offenders can serve minimum-security federal time in Winnipeg healing lodge
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A healing lodge will allow Indigenous Manitoba women to serve a federal sentence in their home province under a proven rehabilitation program.
Eagle Women’s Lodge in Winnipeg will be converted to a Correctional Service of Canada healing lodge, while still being managed by the Indigenous Women’s Healing Centre.
Low-risk offenders — they don’t have to be Indigenous — can request to serve time at a healing lodge, where community and cultural programming are used to help offenders prepare to re-enter society and leave crime behind.
Up to 30 women serving minimum-security sentences will be able to stay at Eagle Women’s Lodge, as early as this fall. Young children will also be able to stay at the community-run facility, officials said in a release, so mothers can maintain relationships with their babies and toddlers.
The Correctional Service of Canada has found healing lodges to be an effective public safety tool in numerous studies. One study, conducted in Edmonton in 2015, found that of 40 women released on parole from a healing lodge, only one re-offended.
“Federally sentenced women from Manitoba have been far from home for far too long,” said Indigenous Women’s Healing Centre executive director Annetta Armstrong.
“In the spirit of reconciliation, the Indigenous Women’s Healing Centre will now have the opportunity to provide a healing lodge environment for Indigenous women to live, grow and heal that incorporates Indigenous traditions, values and beliefs that support a safe return back into the community.”
Eagle Women’s Lodge will be the 10th healing lodge available to Canadian inmates. Most are run by Indigenous communities, including the Ochichakkosipi Healing Lodge for men in Crane River.
Until now, the lodge has been used to house women transitioning out of prison.
tessa.vanderhart@freepress.mb.ca