Ending solitary confinement in Canada’s prisons, take 2
Justin Ling: Ottawa is reappointing an expert panel—disbanded a year ago because it couldn’t do its work—to study the unconstitutional use of solitary confinement in prisons
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Houses of hate: How Canada’s prison system is broken
Justin Ling: Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation’s penal system is not just failing, it’s making things worse.
The beat cop who lends an ear to criminals
’As police, we are not dealing with good or bad people. We’re just dealing with people, many in a bad situation, with horrendous circumstances in their life.’
Women need health and dental care to stay out of prison
A new study reveals that basic health care, both in prison and on release, is essential to ensure successful reintegration into society
Why Adam Capay spent 1,560 days in solitary
From 2016: The UN would call Adam Capay’s treatment torture. In a Canadian prison, he was just another inmate in segregation.
Why do we still put young people in solitary confinement?
A new Ontario report shows how isolation for jailed youth can be dehumanizing and riddled with legal violations. How do we fix it?
10 most notorious prisoners of the maximum security Kingston Penitentiary
It opened in 1835, and though it was men-only in recent years, it used to have women and even child inmates. The prison is slated...
Once a criminal, always a criminal
Edward Greenspan and Anthony Doob get tough on the Harper government’s "tough on crime" approach to justice policy.
How to spin
Last week, the NDP criticized Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu after Mr. Boisvenu suggested convicted murders be given...
What you don’t know
A former Progressive Conservative MP and Justice Department advisor says the government’s crime legislation will lead to worsening...