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Correcting Corrections: Recommendations Include Action on Drugs, Recreation Time
A report into four deaths inside prison walls in this province wants the justice system to consider technology to help reduce the amount of drugs getting to inmates. The Jesso Report into the deaths o...
Feb 07, 2019 (File photo, Her Majesty's Penitentiary.)
Review of Inmate Deaths Sets 17 Recommendations for NL Corrections
The review of the deaths of four people at the penitentiary in St. John's and the women's facility in Clarenville has not found any reason or information to put the blame on any one person or persons....
Feb 06, 2019
Red Dresses Across Province Remember Chantel John
Red dresses are being worn and displayed throughout Conne River and across the province to honour the memory of Chantel John, a young woman killed in the community Wednesday night. The Chief of Conne ...
Jan 11, 2019 Chantal John, and the red dresses that represent missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. (File photo)
'A Dark Cloud' Descends on Community Following Woman's Death in Conne River
The Chief, council and community of Conne River are asking people to wear red tomorrow in memory of Chantel John who was murdered in the community last night. RCMP are investigating what they're calli...
Jan 10, 2019
Woman Testifies About Moments Before Rollover That Left Her Paralyzed
The young woman left paralyzed after a 2017 car accident on Pitts Memorial Drive was on stand today, and recalled asking 23-year-old Joshua Steele-Young to stop the car moments before the crash. Morga...
Dec 05, 2018
A Reporter's Eye View of Suicide
The loss of one of our own reporters this week has led to a conversation about mental health in society. For a journalist, when you report on a story, you are always aware that to some extent you can ...
Aug 22, 2018
Remembering VOCM Reporter, Producer Meech Kean
This week, we mourn for one of our own. Meech Kean, who joined our team at VOCM News three years ago, died suddenly this weekend. He was 27 years old. Meech was primarily our legislative reporter but ...
Aug 21, 2018
RNC Officer Accused of Breaching Emergency Protection Order
Originally posted on July 31, 2018 | 12:20 p.m. RNC Chief Joe Boland says there was no violence during an incident that led to the arrest of RNC Cst. Steve Curnew of the Criminal Investigation Divisio...
Jul 31, 2018
A Cry for Help: Inmates Tell of Red Flags Leading to Deaths at Clarenville Correctional
Inmates and those close to inmates at the Clarenville Correctional Centre have been reaching out in recent weeks following the deaths of two young women at the facility. VOCM News has received informa...
Jun 05, 2018
Stray Dog Back on the Streets as a Cop
A local neighbourhood stray hit the big time after being spotted at the city's Humane Services by an RCMP Sergeant. Luke, a Labrador retriever cross, who started his life wandering in a St. John's nei...
Mar 22, 2018
