Officials meet today over future of treatment for prisoners

Three-quarters of Ontario's treatment centres for inmates appear headed for shutdown under the province's jail restructuring plan.

Provincial and federal officials plan to hold their first meeting today over the future of the latest casualty on the list, the acclaimed Northern Treatment Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.

A spokesperson for the Ontario solicitor-general's ministry insists that treatment for inmates with drug, anger and sex abuse problems will be improved and expanded, starting with centres to be incorporated into three new superjails in Milton, Lindsay and Penetanguishene.

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