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Panel to address mental health, B.C. prisons, and the legacy of Mary Steinhauser – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Summary by Tri-Cities Dispatch
Port Coquitlam writer Margaret Franz. photo supplied Fifty years ago this month, a B.C. Penitentiary hostage taking ended with the death of psychiatric nurse Mary Steinhauser. It was a tragedy that raised questions about justice, mental illness, the severity of punishment and the possibility of rehabilitation – issues we’re still dealing with today, notes Port Coquitlam writer Margaret Franz. “I couldn’t let it go by,” Franz says of the 50-year …
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Tri-Cities Dispatch broke the news in on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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