The $200 million 360-cell remand centre will be built in the Senkulmen Enterprise Park, an industrial area on OIB land, near Gallagher Lake – 7 kms north of the core of the Town of Oliver.

It’s the first time a jail has been built on native land in B.C., and Osoyoos Chief Clarence Louie says he intends to make the most of it.

“Of course, we hope to make an impact on the aboriginal offender, in reducing the aboriginal incarceration rates, and doing something different in this prison as opposed to the other ones across the country,” said Louie.

Notes from CBC and map from Google