You won't believe this escape from the New Brunswick prison
Good morning from the Fundy shore — the tide's turning, and so is New Brunswick. Let's get into it.
I'll tell you what, when you hear about someone escaping from prison, you picture some big Hollywood movie, right? A tunnel, maybe a rope made of bedsheets. Not here, not in New Brunswick, where a man just spent a *month* on the lam after walking right out of the minimum-security unit at Dorchester Penitentiary. A month! The community around Dorchester, which isn't far from Moncton down the road, has been on edge, and you can understand why. He's back in now, and everyone's breathing a sigh of relief, but it just raises so many questions about how this even happens.
### What This Means for Us
It makes you wonder about the security, doesn't it? Dorchester isn't some tiny little lock-up; it's a federal institution. People here in Saint John, especially if you live uptown near the old burying ground or out past Rockwood Park, we're used to a certain rhythm, a sense of things being pretty settled. News like this, even if it's not *right* here in the Port City, it still makes you think:
* How easy is it to just... leave? This wasn't some daring escape plan, by all accounts. * What does "minimum-security" really mean if someone can just walk away for a month? * It brings up that feeling of unease, knowing someone was just out there, unaccounted for, for so long.
It's one of those things that just doesn't quite add up, and it leaves a sour taste, right? Folks are looking for answers, and they deserve them. We're a tight-knit province, and when something like this happens, even if it's an hour or two away, it feels close to home.
Caleb Duguay-Firth, MiTL Sports Desk, Saint John.
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