A one-time leader of the Independent Soldiers gang has won his transfer back to a lower security jail after claiming in B.C. Supreme Court that his Charter rights were violated.
Jayme Russell, who is serving a seven year sentence for two separate trafficking convictions, was transferred last November from minimum-security Ferndale Institution to Matsqui – a medium security institution.
The Correctional Service of Canada argued that the transfer was necessary because Russell was suspected of ...
