WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the recent release of a man who killed two women "disgusts" him, and he's asking the federal government to change sentencing and parole board provisions.

In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Kinew says the recent release of Shawn Lamb seems to suggest that society is more concerned with Lamb's well-being than with Lamb's victims.

Lamb pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of two Indigenous women — Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith — and was sentenced to 20 years the following year.

By law, most federal inmates are automatically released after serving two-thirds of their sentence, which is known as statutory release.

Kinew is asking Carney to reconsider sentencing and parole eligibility for repeat violent offenders.

He is

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