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Republicans suddenly get smart on crime
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives should take their cue from their American cousins, who have renounced decades of increasingly harsh sentences as an utter failure. All the country has to show for it is a bloated prison budget and a lost generation. Canada can’t afford to make the same mistake.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Prisons Overwhelmed by Mental Illness: Watchdog
As the Correctional Investigator of Canada… it’s [Howard Sapers] job to advocate for the rights of those inside the system. His most recent reports have slammed Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) for its lax approach to caring for elderly and chronically ill inmates, a growing segment of the prison population. He’s also been highly critical of the impact of Tory crime legislation on issues of overcrowding in prisons — in particular the criminalization of mental illness.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Canadians outshone their politicians in 2013
In Ottawa, mean-spiritedness reigns… At Queen’s Park, goodwill is nowhere to be found… Even the charitable sector doesn’t have much good news to report. Again this year, fewer Canadians made donations and those who did, gave less. Is anything going right in this benighted nation? My answer is a quiet yes. In small but significant ways, Canadians began to take back their country.
Tags: budget, corrections, Health, ideology, immigration, participation
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The law, and history, speak for themselves [wife abuse]
… a woman is killed every six days in Canada by her male partner or former partner. Family courts cannot be relied upon to keep batterers away from women’s children — far from it. Welfare rates and policies force women back into the arms of abusers, our shelters are bursting, turning away women and children every day in this country, and the independent women’s movement… is under attack by government and in the media.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, mental Health, women
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Peter MacKay crushes fly with victims’ rights hammer
In handcuffing judges, the Tories eliminated options for leeway in even the most deserving of cases. A homeless youth convicted of a minor offence while struggling to get by faces the same merciless treatment as a hardened drug lord or violent biker… “Tough on crime” doesn’t require crushing those who would be better served with a bit of mercy, and punishment out of proportion to offence does little to aid victims.
Tags: corrections, ideology, rights
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Tories’ tough-on-crime agenda means jammed jails stuffed with minority Canadians
Since the Conservatives came to power in 2006, the overall prison population has grown by 7%, to its highest level ever… the entire increase can be accounted for by rising numbers of Aboriginal, black, Asian and other visible minorities. “You cannot reasonably claim to have a just society with incarceration rates like these”… “incarcerating people has little to do with helping victims”.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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Ottawa renews push to limit mentally ill offenders’ release
The federal government is reintroducing a contentious bill that would restrict the release of “high-risk” mentally ill offenders despite opposition from lawyers and mental-health professionals. The legislation would alter the rules for those found not criminally responsible (NCR) for a crime, in part by giving judges new powers to designate some violent offenders as “high-risk.” … They are usually detained and treated in a hospital until a review board determines that they no longer pose a threat to the public.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health
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Prison life steeped in myths
In fact, two-thirds of provincial prisoners have not been convicted of anything. They are in pre-trail detention (known as “remand”) costing taxpayers roughly $400 a day for an adult, $550 a day for a youth… This underlines the link between poverty and incarceration. Growing up in a low-income family increases a child’s risk of ending up in foster care, dropping out of school, drifting onto the streets, getting hooked on drugs and being arrested. The vast majority of prisoners are from poor households torn apart by domestic violence.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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A Green Speech From The Throne
“Democracy in the 21st Century hangs in a vulnerable place – between corporate rule, totalitarianism and hyper-partisan manipulation… prorogation of parliament, in 2008 and 2009, [was] essentially unconstitutional… To be legitimate, government must exist by consent of the governed; Parliament is supreme; The prime minister reports to parliament and not the other way around.”
Tags: budget, corrections, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Harper government’s tough-on-crime laws are outdated
This leaves Harper in the lurch… His crime legislation, designed for the George Bush era, is an anachronism in the Barack Obama presidency… it will give both the Liberals and New Democrats solid ground on which build to platforms that emphasize rehabilitation, drug treatment and restitution, as opposed to ever more imprisonment.
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