Photo: Opening of Nunavut’s new jail delayed

Nunavut’s new $40-million, 46-bed correctional centre and men’s healing facility in Rankin Inlet, originally scheduled to open in early 2012, won’t open until “later this year,” according to Nunavut’s justice minister Daniel Shewchuk. The building will be turned over to the Government of Nunavut by the end of March, Shewchuck said in the Nunavut legislature, along with the centre’s completed residence. Then, staff hiring will start. “With the apparent overcrowding at that we have in the Baffin Correctional Centre and with the anticipation of the passing of Bill C-10, we need the new men’s healing facility in Rankin Inlet to open,” Quttiktuq MLA Ron Elliott told Shewchuk in the Nunavut legislature this week. (PHOTO BY T.T. SMITH)