Sask. offender says restorative justice helped him ‘hang on’
It took 20 years of being in and out of prison for Art Cachene to realize he needed to turn his life around. Sitting in a coffee shop in Saskatoon, he said his wake-up call came when he was 47 years old, staring into the mirror of a prison cell and seeing his greying hair in the reflection.
“And I started to say to myself ‘man I gotta get outta here. There is something wrong with me’.”
The 64-year-old has served several sentences in both correctional facilities and penitentiaries; his longest period of incarceration was six years.
Cachene said it was a fellow inmate—a much younger guy, he adds—who helped put his life into perspective.