Salvation Army temporarily puts application for parolee facility on hold
City council agreed Monday to give the Prince Albert Salvation Army time to collect data about a potential custodial care facility, essentially putting the application on hold.
On Friday, the Salvation Army sent a letter to city council asking it to withhold its application to operate a 10-parolee facility at 717 MacArthur Drive, the site of the Prince Albert Apostolic Church. Near the church at 620 MacArthur Drive is Westview Community School.
The proposed correctional resident facility would house 10 men on day parole in the federal corrections system.
“Due to the large amount of necessary facts that The Salvation Army wishes to present to council, we need more time to properly compile this needful data,” the Salvation Army’s Maj. Glenn Patey said in the letter.