I'm not surprised the provincial government didn't want to co-locate their facilities with the city's new police station. From an urban planning perspective, its a shame. An expanded remand centre means there will be fewer people working in north downtown (in the short term), and more people working up in the north industrial. Why is this bad you ask? Well, a majority of employees at the expanded centre will no doubt drive to work because transit service for the north industrial is pitiful at best.
As well (some of you may disagree), locating a provincial remand centre in a highly visible location (25th St. Downtown/warehouse district) was an opportunity to serve as both a deterrent to the criminally inclined, and an educational tool for the wider community. Most people don't know, or care to know where we house our 'criminals' (out of sight, out of mind). Not the way I would have it.
As for locating a 'jail' downtown (safety concerns), its no different than where the current remand centre is located, adjacent to the Silverwood residential neighborhood.
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City to get $87-million remand centre
Corrections system in need of fix: report
Saskatchewan News Network; Regina Leader-Post March 13, 2009 Comments (2)
A damning report detailing how a group of inmates went undetected for months as they chipped their way through the wall of the Regina jail shows the system is "in need of a fix," Saskatchewan's corrections, public safety and policing minister said Thursday.
"That is why we're committing today to taking action," said Darryl Hickie, as he announced
the government will spend $87-million over four years to construct a new remand centre in Saskatoon, in addition to $9.4 million this fiscal year for security upgrades in adult facilities.
"We have evidence to show that there were a host of reasons why those six inmates could escape that night and many of the reasons we know result from long-standing reasons that are, for the most part, system-wide," Hickie said.
The government issued a formal response that pledges action on each of the 23 recommendations made in an external investigation team's report, which included a call for more staff training and a bigger management presence at the centre outside of normal working hours.
Hickie said the new remand centre for Saskatoon will be built at the site of the correctional centre and should alleviate some space pressures as well as allow for better management of offenders on remand -- especially those charged with serious and violent offences.
"Saskatoon with its overcrowding now and its central location in the province makes sense as a starting point for a remand centre," Hickie said, adding Regina will also be able to move inmates to Saskatoon.
Saskatoon police Chief Clive Weighill had hoped a new correctional facility would be constructed close to the site of the expanded police station planned for the city's downtown, which would eliminate the need for police to have their own holding cells for new arrests.
Nevertheless, the decision to expand the provincial jail's remand unit at its current location is good news for the city and badly needed to address crowding issues, he said.
"I think there will be some room there for us to maybe work with them and negotiate on a future role for our detention with that new remand centre," Weighill said.
"So I'm going to contact the (corrections) minister and see if that would be maybe on their radar. We're hoping . . . that will open the door for us to house our prisoners there on the weekend."
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, but now I see it as sort of gothic in it's oppressiveness. It sort of looks like it might be waiting to pounce on the street. However, I still think it is likely very preliminary and will likely not look anything like it does now. 
except for a little added saturation and sharpening that I have done in Photoshop.
on the starwoodhotels website
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