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‘We Will Do Better’: Vancouver Island District to Review Prison Break Alerts
Council is reviewing delayed alerts and a revised communication plan after residents learned of the prison break hours after it began.
- Metchosin officials are reviewing emergency alert procedures following the escape of prisoner Ernest Egon Jensen from William Head Institution on June 28, who was found dead the following afternoon in the ocean.
- Jensen was serving a life sentence for the 1989 murder of Leonard Skwarok in Alberta; residents questioned his placement in a minimum security facility, echoing concerns from a 2019 escape incident.
- The prison is responsible for contacting the RCMP and the district but not the public directly; Mayor Marie-Thérèse Little relayed information to 5,067 citizens using Facebook and door-to-door visits.
- Acting warden Anthony Baldo stated William Head is strengthening communication procedures to address gaps experienced three or four weeks ago, while council member Steve Gray requested a revised plan for discussion.
- Prison officials will continue to review how they screen offenders, with Baldo affirming that practices established following the 2019 incident remain "still in play" to prevent future placement errors.
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‘We will do better’: Metchosin to review prison break alerts for residents
How Metchosin residents are alerted in the event of a prison break from the William Head Institution is under scrutiny. “I think that Facebook and email just doesn’t cut it,” said Coun. Steve Gray at the July 13 council meeting, reflecting on the events following the escape of “dangerous” prisoner Ernest Egon Jensen last month. In the hours after Jensen’s escape on June 28, an alert was posted on the Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) Facebo…
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