Polar bear jail

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The Polar Bear Holding Facility, colloquially known as the Polar Bear Jail is a special building in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, where polar bears that are considered troublesome or dangerous are isolated until they can be relocated. Before the facility was established, polar bears which were considered dangerous were shot. The jail was established in 1982 or in 1983, after a person on the street was mauled by a bear. The facility is the subject of the poem "Churchill Bear Jail" by Salish Chief Victor A. Charlo.

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