N.S. justice officials defend monitoring of convicts on community sentences
“Representatives from Nova Scotia’s Justice Department faced questioning today on why the province failed to oversee the company it hired to monitor convicts serving sentences in the community.
A report last week from the auditor general found that electronic surveillance protocols were often not followed and that some probation officers did not comply with corrections policies between 2019 and 2020.
NDP MLA and leadership candidate Claudia Chender asked director of correctional services Michael McAloney what led to the problems illustrated in the report.
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McAloney seemed to dispute the report’s findings, saying there is “extensive oversight” of community corrections officers and his office is “well aware of what’s going on.”
The correctional services director went on to say he thinks “some of that might have been missed,” in the auditor general’s report.
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