"What can be said with some assurance is that sending a young, impressionable first-time offender to prison is not going to make him a better person, and is not going to leave him undamaged." Gut punch of a story by my colleague Dean Pritchard www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202...

Unmoved by young offender’s progress, Manitoba judge ordered prison term; Indigenous man later chose deathThe day started with an email from my editor.www.winnipegfreepress.com