restorative justice

Crime and the new punishment for university students

Dalhousie takes kinder approach if students are arrested

Crime and the new punishment for university students

Dalhousie takes kinder approach if students are arrested

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An award-winning prosecutor on trial delays, mandatory minimums, and drug crime

Robert Gillen, who retired last spring after a 33-year career as a Crown prosecutor in British Columbia, isn’t what you’d call soft on crime. Among the many bad guys he put behind bars is, for example, John Horace Oughton, the so-called “paper bag rapist,” convicted in 1987 for a string of sexual assaults in B.C., and still serving an indefinite prison term as a dangerous offender.