Correctional Service to Pay Métis Inmate $7,500 for Charter Rights Violation

Correctional Service to Pay Métis Inmate $7,500 for Charter Rights Violation
Patches are seen on the arm and shoulder of a corrections officer, on Oct. 26, 2017. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
Amanda Brown
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A Métis prison inmate has been awarded $7,500 by a federal judge following a violation of his Charter rights by the Correctional Service.

Jeffrey Ewert, a convicted murderer, made a formal complaint that prison staff had interfered with his sacred “medicine bundle” of feathers and arrowheads and that by touching it, they had breached his Charter right to freedom of religion, Blacklock’s Reporter said.