{"id":849993,"date":"2026-08-08T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:22:16","slug":"two-officers-inmate-die-during-transfer-from-edmonton-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849993\/","title":{"rendered":"Two officers, inmate die during transfer from Edmonton prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/correctional-service-of-canada.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two correctional officers and an offender were killed in a crash during a transfer from the Edmonton Institution for Women, according to Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). <\/p>\n<p>The facility in the city\u2019s west end that accommodates minimum-and medium-security inmates.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened after 11 a.m. on Thursday at the intersection of Highway 13 and 41, about 270 kilometres southeast of Edmonton near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP say the minivan carrying the officers and the inmate and a Hino box truck with a lone driver were involved in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The three people in the van, a 25-year-old woman from Winnipeg, a 57-year-old man from Sherwood Park, and a 24-year-old woman from North Battleford died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the box truck was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency\u00a0posted condolences to social media\u00a0on Thursday evening, calling it a tragic accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur colleagues who lost their lives in the line of duty served Canadians with professionalism, dedication and courage,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers called the death of the officers an unimaginable tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two correctional officers and an offender were killed in a crash during a transfer from the Edmonton Institution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[901,32920,49,48,32921,32927,4398,23752,32919,32924,32922,32923,32926,32918,7607,32925],"class_list":["post-849993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-radio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-radio","tag-classic-country","tag-country-music","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-radio","tag-first-nations","tag-fort-mcmurray","tag-grande-prairie","tag-hot-country","tag-indigenous","tag-media","tag-radio-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}