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Ontario review of psychiatric wait times in jail kept secret
Ontario has completed a review of wait times for inmates seeking psychiatric treatment in provincial jails, but the corrections ministry is keeping the results secret. The ministry committed to the review as part of a landmark settlement reached in September 2013 with Christina Jahn, an Ottawa prisoner with a mental illness and terminal cancer who was kept in solitary confinement for more than 200 days.
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How restorative justice re-connects fairness to justice
One of the most important reasons that restorative justice has gained global recognition and respect is that it gives a real voice and choice of process to victims of wrongdoing, something that the justice system continues to be woefully incapable of providing. Those who have been wronged can participate in person, through an agent or lawyer… On a deeper level, restorative justice attempts to re-connect fairness to justice and in doing so, it repairs relationships.
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Canadian criminal justice meets ghost of Christmas past
Some Scandinavian countries have addressed the problem of poverty and criminal fines by using a system of “day fines,” according to which the amount of the fine is adjusted to how many days’ income it would represent for the criminal. This introduces a measure of equal justice into a society where variations in income and wealth can be extreme, ensuring that the impact of the fine is equal for each person punished.
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New book unpacks myth of ‘Black dangerousness’ and racism in Canada
The Dirty War, a new book in the Our Schools/Our Selves series, paints a chilling picture of life experiences and opportunities for young Black men in our current social, cultural, economic and political circumstances. In drawing from these sources, author Charles C. Smith conveys the persistent and intended violence and chaos in the lives of Black peoples.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, economy, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Drug policy seriously outdated
Canada now faces an important choice. Our government can persist in intensifying the misguided and thoroughly debunked war on drugs, including blocking evidence-based health services with ill-conceived legislation and continuing to waste taxpayers’ dollars by prosecuting and jailing people who need such services. Or we could join the growing consensus that it’s time to abandon the empty declarations of the 1990s and rethink global drug policy, and thereby actually make people and communities healthier and safer.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Canada’s broken bail system penalizes the most vulnerable
… on a typical day, more than half (54.5 per cent, to be precise) of the 25,000 people in Canada’s provincial jails aren’t guilty of anything. Instead, they are being detained while awaiting trial or for their bail conditions to be set… This is enormously inefficient and expensive… More importantly, this broken system is unjust… The irony is that more people are being detained at great public expense even as crime rates fall to record lows.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Mandatory minimums for drug crimes have no future in Canada
New legislation compels judges to impose a minimum one-year prison term on all individuals who meet a handful of criteria. Judges can no longer consider whether it is in the public interest to incarcerate someone… Canada has experienced the same fall in serious crime as the rest of the industrialized world… The federal Conservatives are undoubtedly trying to mobilize voters, but it’s difficult to understand why we would want to support costly incarceration at a time of peaceful streets and social stability.
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Canadian prison overcrowding going to get worse in long-term, auditor general reports
Double-bunking is, according to government policy, supposed to be a temporary measure. But it has grown and appears to have become a permanent fixture of the system… as CSC expanded prisons in recent years, it failed to properly add sufficient segregation cells to isolate some offenders, and add health-care facilities for inmates at the jails… CSC officials expect that the long-distance relocation of offenders, and the associated costs, will continue after the expansion of facilities is completed
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Ontario must target violence in its jails
… attacks in the province’s 29 adult correctional institutions have jumped by almost one-third, with 3,000 assaults in 2012-13 compared to 2,300 five years earlier… The ministry’s own figures show that most of Ontario’s 29 jails hold more prisoners than they were designed for, and cells meant for two people can hold three or more.
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Conservative’s victims’ rights bill out of touch with real needs of justice system
All provinces and territories already have their own legislation protecting victims, typically a victims of crime act and usually providing for victim and witness services, a justice collection agency that funds victims who have suffered financial loss or victims’ programs or both… the federal government already has the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime… The justice system was never over-interested in the rights of criminals. It was interested in protecting the rights of those accused of crime.
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