Ottawa family receives ashes, but few answers after inmate dies in Alberta prison

On the heels of a damning report by Canada's prison watchdog on how Correctional Service Canada deals with families when an inmate dies, an Ottawa man says he didn't learn of his brother's death in an Alberta prison until after he was cremated. Joel Pinkus says in February 2015, his mother received a package at her North Gower, Ont., home, located about 40 kilometres outside Ottawa, containing the cremated remains of his brother Martin Pinkus, who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder at a federal prison in Drumheller, Alta.
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