Wildfires burning near Port-Cartier, Que., forced the evacuation of inmates from the local maximum-security prison, officials with Correctional Service Canada confirmed Sunday as favourable winds ...

The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) criticized several shortcomings linked to the "historic" evacuation of 223 inmates from Port-Cartier, a maximum-security prison in Quebec's Côte ...

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The maximum-security penitentiary in Port-Cartier, on Quebec's North Shore, is under lockdown, after two inmates and nine correctional officers tested positive for COVID-19.

Robert Pickton, 74, was in a segregated intervention unit at the maximum-security Port-Cartier Institution when he was speared in the head with a broken broom handle on Sunday evening.

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who killed over 20 women, has been hospitalized and is in life-threatening condition after an assault at a Quebec prison, authorities said Tuesday ...

B.C. serial killer was brutally assaulted on May 19, at about 5:15 p.m., in a unit for at-risk inmates in Quebec’s Port-Cartier maximum security prison ...

Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, after being assaulted at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison 12 days prior. Updated May 30, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. May 30, 2025.

Robert William Pickton is shown in this undated file television image in his Port Coquitlam, B.C. home. The serial killer was assaulted in at a maximum-security prison on Sunday, according to ...

Still no charges in Robert Pickton prison death, almost one year after fatal assault. Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, after being assaulted at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison 12 ...

Man who attacked 74-year-old at Port-Cartier Institution remains in isolation, Quebec police say Police in Quebec say convicted B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton is in a medically induced coma and ...