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Most people in jail today are innocent
The homeless, addicted and mentally ill (who are often all three) are more likely to end up in jail, innocent or not, and more likely to be a victim of a crime, than the rest of us…. the bail system is all about public fears, and, I hate to say it, self-preservation by the decision-makers… The legal test for bail in Canada is similarly organized around risk aversion: risk of flight, risk of harm and then more risk analysis. Protecting the public from risk is a mug’s game that’s ended up jailing a lot of innocent people.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights
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Professional help for amateur caregivers
There is no cure for the cluster of cognitive disorders — Alzheimer’s disease being the most common — that rob individuals in the final third of their lives of their ability to remember, reason, communicate and care for themselves. Medicine can delay the onset of symptoms in some cases… Bay crest… has just published Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide… to share its knowledge and techniques with the 8 million informal caregivers… who provide 75 per cent of dementia care in Canada.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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How we created a Canadian prison crisis
Prisons in most parts of Canada are experiencing overcrowding, violence, insufficient rehabilitative programs, a lack of graduated, supportive reintegration programs for prisoners returning to communities, and inadequate mental and physical medical attention for an increasingly older and needier prison population. Our prisons are no longer able to provide the tools and incentives to reform prisoners and return them to a life free of crime in the way that they have done in the past.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Funding, reforms to abuse program concerns women’s issues experts
PAR programs are used as a tool to hold lower-risk or first-time offenders accountable for their actions when there is a low chance of conviction, and provide support for and aim to reduce harm for victims… agencies and experts in domestic violence from across the province had written group letters to the ministry complaining the program is in “crisis.” … The cut in the length of the program… was made without research on potential outcomes, including the impact on the safety of women and children.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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Ontario justice system ‘punishes’ mental illness
The 1960s deinstitutionalization movement arose out of the belief that patients would be better served in the community, but it led to the mass closure of psychiatric beds without a corresponding investment in social supports such as housing and mental health treatment. The movement spurred a troubling and unintended consequence: an increase in encounters between the mentally ill and police… Now jails have replaced asylums as repositories for people who don’t have adequate resources to cope with community living
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Most of Canada’s prisoners have never been convicted of anything. Why are they in jail?
In most cases, the accused are minor offenders: drug users, people with mental health issues accused of non-violent crimes, first-time offenders. Twenty years ago, they would have automatically gotten bail… The result? “Less people are being released on bail, less quickly, and with more conditions, during a time of historically low and still-declining crime rates.” … The system is broken… Is there a politician in Canada with the courage to take up the cause?
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Protect young people in group homes
Some young people in Ontario’s group homes are being physically and chemically restrained or funneled into the justice system. It doesn’t have to be that way… 1,199 disturbing “serious occurrences” reports about children in care in group homes and other settings in Toronto that were filed to Ontario’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services in 2013. But the ministry doesn’t analyze the data for provincial patterns or trends that could inform guidelines for staff training and youth care.
Tags: child care, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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High cost of child care keeps many Toronto families in poverty
… the shortage affects parents of all backgrounds by limiting their economic opportunities, destabilizing family life and, in some cases, pushing them out of town… Nearly 17,000 eligible children are on the subsidy waiting list… lack of affordable child care poses an economic burden not just for families but for society as a whole… a decade after Quebec’s universal child-care program was introduced, 70,000 more mothers were employed, and the province’s GDP was boosted 1.7 per cent.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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46 CAS agencies, 46 standards of care for vulnerable children
The provincial government, which spends $1.5 billion annually funding children’s aid societies, has collected the information for decades but doesn’t use it to compare performance… “Why are senior executives not brought together in the same room to discuss what these numbers mean? Right now, we don’t have a firm grasp on what works, or even have agreement on desired outcomes. We can not even begin to have such discussions unless and until we start comparing data.”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Chronic wait times persist for families coping with autism
… parents across the province, who hear the clock ticking as the critical period for therapy — when children’s young brains are most responsive — passes by. Chronic wait times persist in the face of damning reports over the past two years… In Durham, York and Simcoe regions, the average wait time last year was 39 months… most children weren’t starting therapy until they were age 7, long past the preschool period when it is most effective.
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