What most residents in New Brunswick would benefit from is redirecting that $32 million into solving the housing crisis,” said Ardath Whynacht, Associate Professor and Director of the Health Studies Program at Mount Allison University, in an interview with the NB Media Co-op. Whynacht said that the government’s decision to build a new prison when New Brunswickers are suffering lacks coherence and is a misplaced priority. In an email statement to the NB Media Co-op, a Department of Justice and Public Safety spokesperson pointed out that the department “considered the existing network of correctional facilities, their capacity, and their locations when deciding to build a new facility in the Fredericton region.”