Escaped prisoner caught by Saskatchewan RCMP

A prisoner who escaped from a Saskatchewan healing lodge has been captured by police.

RCMP said Louis Bonneau escaped on Oct. 28 from the Willow Cree Healing Lodge on the Beardy’s First Nation.

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Prince Albert RCMP said a call came in late Tuesday afternoon of a possible sighting of Bonneau in a rural area of MacDowall.

Officers said they arrived to find a containment had been set up around a farmyard by local residents where Bonneau was last seen.

Police said Bonneau gave himself up a short time later.

He was taken to hospital for treatment of prolonged exposure and is expected to make a full recovery, according to a police statement.

Willow Cree Healing Lodge is a minimum security federal institution located roughly 85 kilometres north of Saskatoon.

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