Transferring prisoners to healing lodges to be restricted, Goodale says

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is making it harder for federal prisoners to be transferred to Indigenous “healing lodges” if they’re serving long sentences.
The move comes after public anger that Terri-Lynne McClintic, convicted of murdering eight-year-old Tori Stafford, was moved to a healing lodge in Saskatchewan from a traditional prison.
McClintic was eight years into a life sentence for the abduction, rape and murder of the Ontario girl. Her first elig