What does a prison in the Canadian Arctic look like with a steam room and a place for fumigation?
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/what-does-a-prison-in-the-canadian-arctic-look-like-with-a-steam-room-and-a-place-for-fumigation.htmlThe North Slave Correctional Center in the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife houses just 150 inmates and is designed for criminals from the Canadian Arctic. Prisoners are provided with fairly comfortable conditions, with all the amenities and halls to spend time - and stay in shape.
For Eskimos there is a steam room (for a cleansing ritual) and a special place for fumigation with smoke. Patrick Kane went to prison and took a series of interesting photographs, which were then published in the Canadian Vice.
Graffiti in the visiting room.
Empty cell. When a prisoner arrives, he is given a mattress, pillow and blanket.
Graffiti on the cell wall.
Steam room for Eskimos.
Traditional healer Arvin Landry with a fumigation bowl.
Playground.
Obstacle course layout.
A prisoner looks at graffiti he painted in 2012.
A room where healing meetings and Eskimo ceremonies and rituals take place.
Corridor.
Grocery store - the best seller is popcorn.
There are VHS tapes in the cabinets.
This is what the prisoners watch.
A prisoner from Nunavut Territory.
Traditional foods such as venison, Arctic char, seal meat and whale oil are given to prisoners every few days.
The stand explains the harm of homemade tattoos.
Drawing of one of the prisoners.
The prisoner looks out the window.
Beaded roses. Prisoners draw and weave beads, and then send their crafts to family and friends.
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