Inmate escapes from minimum-security women’s healing lodge in Edmonton
Posted December 10, 2025 8:43 am.
Authorities are looking for an inmate who escaped a minimum-security facility in Edmonton on Tuesday.
Staff at Buffalo Sage Wellness House discovered Charmaine Louis-Crier, 46, was not accounted for during the 3 p.m. count, Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) says.
Native Counselling Services of Alberta, which operates the women’s healing lodge, says the Edmonton Police Service was contacted immediately and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Louis-Crier is serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence for kidnapping, robbery, forcible confinement, assault, uttering threats, and intimidation of a justice system participant or journalist.
She is described as five-foot-eight, weighing 177 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. She has dimple piercings and multiple tattoos, including a spider web on her right forearm; a crown on her left upper arm; skeleton fingers on her left hand; and “TYTYS” on the left side of her face.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Native Counselling Services of Alberta and the CSC will investigate the circumstances of Louis-Crier’s escape.
