
Leo Puddester, was a former HMP correctional officer and union leader when he was sentenced to four months in prison for defying a court order in relation to a HMP wildcat strike he led in 1999.I also participated in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successful pot-smuggling venture with revenues in excess of $100-million US annually." O'Dea, served prison time in California, Springhill Institution, NS, and HMP St. Simultaneously owned and operated a fleet of tractor-trailer trucks conducting business in the western United States. .
Business experience: Owned and operated a successful fishing business - multi-vessel, one airplane, one island and processing facility.
The advertisement was titled "Former Marijuana Smuggler" and read: "Having successfully completed a 10-year sentence, incident free, for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, I am now seeking a legal and legitimate means to support myself and my family.
Brian O'Dea is a former international drug smuggler who gained notoriety when he placed an advertisement in Canada's National Post seeking a job. John's, before being released after a supreme court judge ruled that the RCMP had overstepped its surveillance efforts by wiretapping a meeting between Rizzuto and his attorney. in UB1987, Rizzuto was arrested following a drug bust in Trinity Bay, NL, in an abandoned community called Ireland's Eye, where 225 million dollars of hashish was seized by RCMP. Vito Rizzuto, also known as Teflon Don, was a Mafia boss, and head of the notorious Rizzuto crime family, based in Montreal, Quebec. In 1980, Watson was sentenced to ten days in prison for assaulting a fisheries officer, while attempting to disrupt the NL seal hunt. Paul Watson is an internationally known conservationist and founder of the Sea Shephard Conservation Society. Michael Harris, a well-known journalist and former editor of NL's now defunct Sunday Express, which was largely credited for breaking the scandal, would go on the publish a best selling book regarding the Mount Cashel sex abuse scandal. While briefly held in HMP custody, Hickey would go on to serve the remainder of his sentence in Dorchester Penitentiary, New Brunswick, were he died in 1992. Hickey was the first of numerous Roman Catholic priests and brothers, who were convicted of sex crimes in relation to a sex abuse scandal that rocked NL, and gained international infamy. Father James Hickey, a former Roman Catholic priest, who was convicted of multiple sex crimes against children in NL. Described by police as a sexual sadist, Ryan eluded capture for 25 days, before being located in a makeshift camp in a wooded area near Long Harbour, NL. On August 3, 2000, Richard Ryan became the subject of a Canada wide man-hunt after escaping from a NL correctional officer, who was escorting Ryan to visit his sick mother. Amey, was the second RCMP officer to be killed in the line of duty in the province of NL. The 24 year-old mountie, attempted to arrest one of the four escapees, Melvin Young, who shot and killed Amey. The four prisoners stole a car and made their way to Whitbourne, NL, where they encountered RCMP Constable Robert Westen Amey. On December 12, 1964, four inmates escaped from HMP St. The province of NL, is responsible for the operation and administration of NL's correctional service under the Department of Justice and Public Safety. John's, has undergone extensive renovations and additions, that provide inmates with modern cells, common areas and amenities. John's, it is commonly referred to by locals as, His Majesty's Hotel, or The Inn by the Lake, due to its proximity to Quidi Vidi Lake, which hosts North America's oldest annual sporting event, the Royal St. It is believed to be the oldest prison currently operating in Canada since the closure of Ontario's Kingston Penitentiary, in September 2013. Originally constructed in 1859, it houses primarily male offenders and has a capacity of 175 inmates. John's, is the largest prison in the province of NL, by size and inmate population. Each institution operates under a uniformed rank structure.
NL's prison service is overseen by the superintendent of prisons, who is responsible for the management of all provincial prisons and short-term holding facilities.
5 Notable events and controversies: circa 2000-present. 4 Executions: His Majesty's Penitentiary, NL.