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Detainees are now back at the Ge-Da-Gi-Binez Youth Centre here, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services revealed yesterday.
As previously reported, ministry staff had been working with Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services to develop a plan to return youth to the facility, with operations resumed there last week.
“As with any secure detention facility, the safety of staff and youth at the facility is our number-one priority,” ministry spokeswoman Anne Smith said yesterday.
“We were able to enhance staff training to help mitigate any sort of incident from happening again,” she added.
Smith noted “a number of the youth have been transferred in,” but for security reasons could not specify if all six youths were returned or even if they were the same ones.
The ministry previously confirmed the centre would remain co-ed, and that Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services will continue to operate it.
The centre had been sitting empty since an altercation on June 3 that left two staff members injured, two teens facing assault charges, and all six youths who were being detained there at the time relocated to the young offender facility in Thunder Bay.
