Transfer to Medium-Security Prison Raises Fears of Bernardo Being on Path to Release: Lawyers

Transfer to Medium-Security Prison Raises Fears of Bernardo Being on Path to Release: Lawyers
Doug (L) and Donna French, parents of murder victim Kristen French, with their lawyer Tim Danson (R), after Paul Bernardo's parole hearing at the Millhaven Institution in Ontario on Oct. 17, 2018. Bernardo was again denied parole on June 22, 2021. The Canadian Press/Lars Hagberg
Marnie Cathcart
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The lawyer for the families of two of Paul Bernardo’s victims says that with Correctional Service Canada (CSC) not being forthcoming as to why it transferred the serial killer to a medium-security prison, it raises fears and speculation of a possibility that the federal agency may want to eventually release Bernardo at some point.

“I see this all the time, that there is a methodology of cascading through the system from maximum security, medium, then minimum security, to facilitate the offender’s chances of getting parole,” Tim Danson told CTV’s “Power Play.”