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Why does the Indigenous rate of incarceration only grow?
Friday, January 24th, 2020
Conservative policies stripped sentencing judges and parole boards of discretion, adding mandatory minimums and other limits on their ability to consider specific facts and risks of individual cases. While the Liberals opposed many of these reforms during campaign season, they have done little to address the harmful legacy… we have not learned enough from community-based and Indigenous legal traditions that offer more promising methods of responding to wrongdoing.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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How can prisoners be rehabilitated without proper access to education?
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
CSC policy makes clear that prison staff are expected to facilitate access to postsecondary schooling. But that policy conflicts with another: the total ban on inmate access to the internet… As the federal Office of the Correctional Investigator put it in a 2016 report: “It’s hard to understand how an environment deprived of computers and Internet, and thereby deprived of information, can be rehabilitative.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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