Kingston’s Collins Bay Prison Will Allow Inmate Drug Use as Part of ‘Harm Reduction’ Approach

Third prison to offer 'Overdose Prevention Service' to incarcerated population

An exercise yard for the segregation unit is shown at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., on May 10, 2016. Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press

A prison in Kingston, Ont., will be the third in Canada where inmates can consume illicit drugs that they sneak into prison, and will receive medical supervision while they get high.

The new initiative will be introduced in the near future at the Collins Bay Institution, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) told The Epoch Times on Sept. 12, making it the third such site in Canada where inmates can use “self-supplied” drugs.