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Officials Probe Prison's Buff Barbecue

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SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Canadian prison officials have launched a probe into a barbecue held at a Saskatoon psychiatric facility following reports that potentially violent inmates dined on steak, climbed trees and stripped naked.



Corrections Canada officials said in local newspaper reports on Friday that they had launched the review after photographs from the party, held in early August at the Regional Psychiatric Center in Saskatoon, were distributed to journalists.

Newspaper reports, some of which dubbed the prison "Club Fed," said the pictures show seven inmates from the aggressive behavior control unit grilling filet mignon and climbing trees. One inmate was also snapped in the buff standing in a makeshift swimming pool.

Officials at the center have said that while barbecues are part of normal activities at the unit, those inmates should have been better supervised.

Inmates in the unit have a history of violence, officials said, with many transferred there from Canada's regular prisons.

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