Lawsuits
A number of lawsuits have been filed against the NPB alleging mistakes. Examples include:
- RCMP Const. Mike Templeton filed a lawsuit after he was shot in the face by Daniel Jonathan Courchene, a known gang member who was had been kept on parole despite the fact that the NPB was aware that he had repeatedly violated his parole conditions.
- Gladys Abramenko filed a lawsuit after she was assaulted and her husband was murdered by Eric Fish, who had been granted conditional release to a halfway house despited the fact that he was serving a life sentence for murder and had been diagnosed with "criminal and anti-social propensities." She reached an out-of-court settlement with several national law enforcement agencies in her civil suit, seeking unspecified financial damages from convicted murderer Eric Fish, the RCMP, Corrections Canada, the National Parole Board and the John Howard Society. Details of the settlement "could not be revealed."
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