NWT agrees to accept 15 Nunavut inmates

The GN has an agreement with the Northwest Territories to place an average of at least 15 inmates per day in the NWT, and the NWT is committed to accept at least that number of placements, Premier Paul Okalik, the minister of justice, said in a letter to Quttiktuq MLA Rebekah Williams tabled in the assembly last week.

Okalik was responding to a letter from Williams dated June 26.

“The minimum commitment, which has been made, is considerably less than the number of placements made last year,” Okalik’s letter says. “The department of justice certainly recognizes that this arrangement is not ideal.”

The agreement can be terminated with a notice period of a full fiscal year, and runs for until March 31, 2006.