New memorial honours Correctional Service of Canada staff who died in the line of duty

Thirty-five faces stare from the stone walls of a memorial outside Correctional Service Canada's (CSC) training academy in Kingston, Ont.

Each image and name is a tribute to the life and sacrifice of a staff member who died in the line of duty.

It's a somber place where surviving relatives can sit and remember their loved ones.

"It offers some assurance that their family member will not be forgotten," said Dave St. Onge. "This will endure well beyond our lives and will be a place of memorial."

The long-awaited monument was officially unveiled during a ceremony at the end of October, but its story began long before.

The memorial in Kingston, Ont., includes the names and faces of 35 CSC staff members. (Dan Taekema/CBC)

St. Onge, curator of Canada's Penitentiary Museum, remembers lo