By C1 Staff
CANADA — Corrections officers are expressing concern over a program that will allow inmates to create Remembrance Day poppies.
It’s not so much the flowers that are causing the issue but what they’re made of. Their construction involves attaching a red “flower” to a bent steel pin.
“If it’s going into the mediums and maximums [prisons], there has to be security measures put in place,” James Bloomfield, region president with the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, told CBC.
The arts and crafts project is being put on by Correctional Service Canda through its CORCAN job-training program.
Other prison employees found no issue with the project.
“I’ve got no problem with it,” said Andy Fialski, a retired master corporal. “It’s putting them to work doing something good for a change.”