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Have you or has someone you know spent time in a correctional facility? Inside Prison openly welcomes personal experiences from former offenders, family and friends, correctional officers, or anyone professionally associated with a particular correctional environment. To get started, select your jurisdiction and facility from the list at right.

Edmonton Remand Centre

272836 writes: 6/26/2008 7:10:22 PM

" I was in the remand center in 2001, back when you could smoke almost anything in there.

I was on unit 2A (THE ZOO). It was the day before our canteen day and the unit was dry for tobacco. Anyone that smoked was strung out from lack of nicotine. I lived in cell #1, my roommate was an IP gang member so him and I were styling.

His packages arrived that day and that meant weed. We had a ounce of it. We were kings. My roommate was friends with one of the guards, I think his name was John, anyways, I was in my cell when he came in with a towel in his hand. He looked at me and said "Merry Christmas" then left the room. I looked on my roomie's bed and found four bails of #7 tobacco that he had just got from the canteen. Later on my roomie told me that the guard was the one I could thank for the weed and the tobacco. "

Mac (Local 03) writes: 7/24/2008 3:20:26 PM

" I worked at ERC for 8 years. Crowded facility. Worst dregs of Northern Alberta end up there at one time or another.

Society is now getting so bleeding-hearted over these inmates, that staff have lost control over the centre.

No wonder there is such violence. I believe kids and young adults are spoiled rotten and think they deserve the best. They lie and steal when they're on the street.

"Can't do the Time... Don't do the Crime," they say.

Sheriff Joe (Maricopa County, AZ) is my hero! "

did it all writes: 7/28/2008 11:08:12 PM

" I was in the Edmomton Remand Centre from 2005-2007 for aggravated assult, something I wish I could take back. But that's the past and now I just want to say that who ever goes there time after time, should just realize that it is waste of time. I wasted almost 3 years of my life in there just for for nothing, but when you're homeless, it's the only free shelter you got. You get a place to sleep, you get to be warm and you're never hungry. Most of the remand population are homeless people, and if they had more shelters in the city then the jail systems would not be so packed.

That's the truth believe me I know! "

o writes: 9/2/2008 10:49:28 AM

" I was there, for a ticket, of all things. Yes, I believe that if you are really violent, then don't expect any kindness for staff. However, for someone like me, who never caused any trouble except for a ticket violation, I don't deserve to be abused by the staff. However, about 90% of the time, the staff was very abusive. There were pregnant women denied a trip to the bathroom, and a dangerously ill woman about to fall into a seizure as well. Innocent until proven guilty. The public could never imagine what it is like in there. It is no wonder most recently some one was found dead there. Some of that past staff have also been charged with disgusting behaviour as well. In all fairness, I make twice as much as one of those guards, and pay much more in taxes, but it is pretty bad knowing just what my tax dollars are going towards. And yes, some people were highly inefficient as well. I can't say all were bad. It must have been pressure from their peers. Beat cops are more professional. "

cruzze writes: 10/3/2008 9:58:20 AM

" Yea, I was in the remand for a month in august and it is sad how they treat the people there, like animals. It's not right. They don't feed them barely anything and the gaurds are rude as hell. They have no respect. I'm 19 and I was in for a threat charge which was later dropped and I just think they should have some decent people working there to show a positive attitude.

Then maybe they could have an impact on some of the offenders' lives and set a good example. "

beenie writes: 11/17/2008 12:47:09 AM

" Edmonton remand I was their 30 years ago. From what i see and hear now Edmonton has a funny way to take care of the homeless poor people. The guards make their own game out of real people and they get paid for it, and yes the Beat Cops are more positive and professional. I think we should make them the guards and put the guards on the street to see how long they last. "

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299890 writes: 5/23/2009 6:54:37 PM

" I just did a 15 month bit myself... it sure is hard to be a female in jail... terrible to be away from your children and family. The staff were harsh a lot of the time. It was enough of an eye opener to keep me from ever going back. It is packed in there, it stinks and in all honesty you starve if you cannot afford canteen. There are really no nice things to say about it... never ever again.) "

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ozzy writes: 11/26/2009 9:57:49 AM

" i spent just a little time in erc but if i could get whay i got before i'd love to go back i had met a girl in a bar one night had a few drinks tried to get her home but she was married so when i ended up in erc i was shocked to find her working there as a guard on my unit,a week went by my celly was transfered about 11pm she walks in my cell alone and said it was a search and told me to strip(she was alone)she then gave me one of the best blowjobs i ever had,she said it was for the drinks and cab ride,before she left she gave me half pack of cigs and four matches and showed me where to hide them and kept my sell to myself for 5 days so if i could go back to that senario again i would "

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southside writes: 2/18/2010 10:10:49 AM

" I'm an officer At E.R.C. currently and if anyone believes "Ozzy," you're just as dumb as he is.

We NEVER enter cells to do strip search alone and women would NEVER strip search a male for obvious reasons. By extension, male officers NEVER strip search females. If you're going to make stuff up, at least make it beleivable, dumbass. "

queen writes: 2/23/2010 5:57:01 PM

" If you've been in the system you know it ain't pretty. I finished a 15 month term, and learned a lot of hard lessons.

Number one, old school doesn't happen anymore. ERC was dirty and lock-up sucked but in some ways I feel that on the womens Unit 5A wasn't that bad, not compared to the drama at FSCC. There on the womens unit there's too much favouritism and if you aren't with certian gaurds then life becomes hell.

My first few months weren't that bad but when I hit Unit 2 life spun in a new direction. One of the guards didn't like me so I shipped out to Lethbridge where I got into a fight with an inmate who fractured my head. Then I got shipped back to ERC where I did fine, and of course shipped back to FSCC. I had changed but this time within months of the meds they push on you, and with the drama and the goof troop, I became completely different. I went from me to anger.

All I can say is that the system is not what tv and news reports say. There is a lot of corrupt gaurds and it is a completely different world in there. Innocent till proven guilty doesn't happen. Try guitly till proven innocent. "

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Anoymous writes: 5/7/2010 5:37:41 AM

" I was part of the Scoop On the Streets of Edmonton In the late 1980s. At that time it was the first I knew that Aboriginal women were being arrested when and if they reported a serious attack by an offender who was white. At that point I was questioned and verbally abused all night long. They refused to believe what I was telling them and made me repeat what I knew about the attack inside the vestibule of my brother's appartment building.

The guy was like something out of Halloween. He kept coming after me dragging me face down a flight of stairs. He was calling me by someone else's name. He wouldn't stop. He pounded my wrist and broke my bracelets while I was grabbing the handrail for leverage to get away. Three times he was pulled off, and three times he was able to throw off my defender and come after me fast enough to drag me down a flight of stairs face down by my legs.

Nothing appeased him he wouldn't take my purse when offered but threw it on the floor. It took three people to get him off and as soon as he was off I ran away into the apartment. No phone. He was a friend of the landlord, a drug addict and criminal. Then the second attack by the Police began. They forced me to take off my shirt, standard operating proceedure even today. They laughed and made filthy observations. They were ugly and depraved.

I was in the Remand Center for two days. It cost my parents a lot of money to get me out and to get me a lawyer. I was completely broke I had just come from a stint at S.F.I.N. University in Sask. They had charged me with aggravated assault with a weapon. I got my lawyer's investigator to find out what happened. Why was I targeted? I found out who the man was. A friend of the landlord a person who was taking advantage of the elderly man who was an alcoholic. He had banged on every door in the building, about the rent he was trying to collect and maybe more people were selling their T-4slips ( income tax) those days.

He had robbed and was intending to rob more. He was stoned out of his mind. The Police were not interested. They had to cover up the arrest and assault on a victim of a sexually and finacially motivated attack. The man's appartment was near the bottom of the stairs he was trying to drag me down there for a reason.

My lawyer advised me to stop talking. After a two year legal battle costing my parents thousands of dollars this was dismissed at preliminary hearing. The man said some blonde guy slashed his throat. He identifyed me as a woman he was flirting with. Against my lawyer's advice I attempted to get the Police to charge him. They said that they already had him. He raped and beat to death a fifteen year old Aboriginal girl In Cold Lake. They didn't have him the RCMP did. I never found out if it was just a line to stop the attack of the Police Officers involved from coming forward. They do lie. I was smacked by the horror of what they had done to me and the fact that they'd caused the murder. None of them believe that when they refuse to charge a white attacker abusing and assualtng an Aboriginal complainant that they are causing murders because they show rapists a technique to use when arrested. They pretend to know their victims and to be in a relationship of some form. They could have any tenuous connection. The attackers are not the ones these people including Police pals are after.

The fields around Edmonton are littered with bodies and it is my information that the RCMP have adopted this technique. They attack the reporter, label them as high risk lifestyle and begin a cycle of abuse through the Children's Services Network now part of the blue wall. Their prostitues at the Services/teams attack and abuse women by forcing them through diversion and they are labelled on a list of violent women. They used to just put an asterisk on the file showing that a woman was considered a violent offender if she had ever been charged with an offense so they set us up for rape/ murder and then have the attackers working on those who survive us inside the walls for the briefest possible imprissonment for killing any one of us. The Remand overflow now goes to the Fort Saskatchewan jail.

There women who have been attacked can become the subject of approaches by Aboriginal Protective gangs. The problem is the correction's authority has all the money. They can abuse women and young people by the technique of having them assessed while they are in a state of shock and practically non-responsive after the attack by first the offender then the Police. It is exactly as it was. I checked. My grand neice was the victim, her lawyer put together a plea agreement she would have done anything to get out. She has a baby the Prostitutes at the Crisis Unit in Edmonton were holding. She permitted them to asert the second charge made by the Prostitute Police Officer who stood over them while a Constable attacked her for refusing to take off her undershirt, he wanted her naked after her strip search once agin in the back hallway. If they get you in there be sure to ask for a female cop or to back into the room where the cameras will protect you. When she kicked out as she was choked, the female Constable a native liason to the IAAW stood over them, and unintentionally was kicked. This prostitute-constable was allowing the charge to stand. In league with others she had made a decission to make a full abuse of this 19 year old girl and set her up for a no Police protection situation and send her out into the streets to beg. She knew the beautiful girl would be squeezed by her prostitute colleagues interspersed through-out the system many actually living with Hell's members. The Attorney General here is famous all over the world for rape propaganda (Rwanda/ Bosnia Herzagovinia) and the installation of Anarcho-capitalism. She had the Peacekeepers stand down in those instances after she started the racial cleansing attack. I found a glossy add on the net it says that Redd Alert are the Enforcers for the Hells. It isn't true.

The Police are the Hell's enforcers. Redd Alert is a loosely associated group formed first in a hip-hop dance group done in the late eighties by a social worker named CM at Indian Affairs. They performed at a series of functions. They were corrupted as one of the first prison related gang members. He went to jail last time for chopping the arm of an seveteen year old Aboriginal girl with a machete in Edmonton's East end. This guy was in his forties at that time.

Most of the recruiters lie about their age, pretending to be younger. I think whoever put out the glossy advertismant was a person interested in making use of the Hell's motto: "There is always an Indian or a N. Word out front taking all the risks." They deal death and the Police serve them and they infiltrate all the service groups and the Police. They have Political backers. I bet I can trace that glossy add, bet it cost money. I never saw a kid in that good of shape except for one fresh out of jail or of course the many Aboriginal athletes and kids who have few options except their actual sports talent or are being stolen form the reserve sports programs by neighbouring towns the minute they get really good in every field of endeavor co-opted.

These people will be advertising the ethos of the Gang. They'll use any method, but recovery is not far off. If fellow innocent people have been imprissoned. Make the choice: No stupifying substances of any sort. This is part of what is called the Firewater attack. They try to get you stoned one way or the other so you can't defend yourself intellectually and psychologically. If they get a fake diagnosis on you they can use it later to discredit you and for the rest of your life. Don't answer questions to them when they have drugged you first. Don't make the mistake of thinking they intend to help you. Most Psychollogists are employed by the Corrections system they are there to cool you out with dope. So stay cool to begin with.

Don't think you'll gain any adavantage if they are able to label you with anything it will follow you the rest of your life. They'll make the effort to write you off and it is a imprisonment well beyond the first one. Don't ever believe soft voices reqesting you to submit to stupifying substances. Don't let them diagnose you in there. On the outside it costs over ten thousand dollars of wasted money to try to get the lable off. No one will buy it. The label will stick no matter what. Once they've got through the fake help to a desparate kid they work it the same as any gang associate. Check them out, they act like pimps.

The Soliciotr General likes to talk about intergenerational transfer. I think the jig's up for him. Residential Schools weren't at the level of a war crime or crimes against humanity were they? Well if he doen't give me an assesssment report that says... Wait a minute that report has to be from a social worker on criminal sub-groups, psychopaths the real ones can diodge psych assessements easy. They're looking to hurt innocent kids. Clear inferential study and corelation you see?

Offenses against the Spiritual development. be Aware of the storeys of the Elders. Who are they and never let a person who pretends to be an elder put the arm on you in the joint. They have extended the crimnal record issue until you are 25 years old. The intent is to hold you for failing to appear when you were 12 years old and on the run. Children's Services is the feeder group for the gangs, controled by them and operating with their blessing through their prostitues. Don't show anger. Be solid. Wait until you get away and then help other's stay away from the "teams" of Police or Hell's involved attackers.

Don't take their dope. Don't go to their parties. Don't buy their line." They don't wear signs around their necks and they'll offer a lot of money up front to own you until their cop friends can have you labelled and maybe killed on the streets or simply used up after a short lifetime of battering and stabbings and shootings against you. Don't go to Prostitue establishments they already have rules posted about their involvement with these ones.

It is permissable to sell dope there and you are only barred for a month. It is permissable to beat women there and be barred for a week. Don't take metahadone they have their bunch in there. Don't listen to any offers by a kind starnger. Go to the people you know and make sure they don't get in with gangs. You can't trust the Aboriginal services they are willing to label you and get you on the list of vulnerable people and several have prostitues working for them.. Check who funds them. If anyone tells you that you deserved to be beaten up at the services. Don't buy their line. If they tell you it is you who are crazy because anyone abused you.

Don't buy their line. Don't make any violent response or become agitated. That's what they want. They can attack you again if you do. As soon as you see them laughing at your pain you'll know who they are. As soon as you see them giving heeps of sympathy and advising you to cop one plea after another you'll know who they are. Don't be a lamb being led to the slaughter. "

Anonymous writes: 6/4/2010 10:34:37 PM

" I was there in the 80s. Perhaps a pool ball broke a window and perhaps someone tied bedsheets together and perhaps as much dope as a guy could get in in the amount of time the window was probably broken, did get in. I'm not sure though, I could be wrong, and I cant really remember the exact september day. "

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