Posts Tagged ‘corrections’
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MPs urge ‘serious’ money for mental health to keep ill people out of prison
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Dec. 14, 2010
The public safety committee report says the federal prison service is “not able at this time” to provide adequate treatment and support to the majority of offenders with mental illness and addiction issues. The MPs say offenders who do not receive the treatment and programs they need are more likely to commit crimes after release, compromising public safety. They make 71 recommendations, including more special courts to handle the needs of people with mental-health and drug problems.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, mental Health
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We need a continuum of care for mentally ill offenders
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
… more people are entering the forensic system from the courts despite increased use of diversion from the criminal justice system… there is little evidence of an increase in the likelihood of violence by people with serious mental illness than there was 20 years ago. So why the rising pressure? …Deinstitutionalization is undoubtedly the right policy, but to be successful it needs comprehensive services to assist people in the community.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, homelessness, housing, mental Health
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PM needs a lesson on crime
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Nov 20 2010
… our Prime Minister has contempt for the very process involved in the gathering of accurate statistics. He lacks sophistication about psychological illness as a significant contributor to individuals getting in trouble with the law, and seems uninterested in the causes of recidivism… / Given that longer sentences and more prisons have been demonstrated around the world to not only not deter crime but to be correlated with higher crime rates, and given that Harper is clearly not stupid, one can only conclude that he wants more crime.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, rights
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Blame Tory policies for rising crime rate
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
November 17, 2010
The fundamental factor behind most crime and criminal behaviour is poverty. The Tories have done a fantastic job of creating and spreading that around. Under their irresponsible fiscal and social leadership, the gap between rich and poor exploded and continues to grow. Yet services remain underfunded… Government priorities remain upside down. Children are left to languish while services are chopped to fund unsustainable, irresponsible tax cuts to profitable corporations… Are the Tories tough on crime? Absolutely not! They are only tough on the criminals their policies created.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Mentally ill offenders swamping prisons
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Nov. 17, 2010
The glut of psychiatric offenders was underlined recently by a string of recent orders from Toronto judges for hospital officials to stop shunting unfit offenders to provincial jails. With hospital and jail officials locked in battle over who will house them, police have been forced to warehouse them in holding cells… Almost 30 per cent of the jail population is comprised of the developmentally handicapped, inmates with psychiatric disorders or serious drug and alcohol problems… In some sense, the criminal law system is the social net of last resort.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health
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Fund education, not prison-building
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Oct 08 2010
How can the Conservatives justify increasing the prison population at a cost of $2 billion to $10 billion during a period of decline in crime?… Would it not be more logical to spend $10 billion on education and social programs designed to draw marginalized Canadians into the mainstream of societal benefits before they turn to crime? Instead of punishing people, why not guide them into productive and socially beneficial lives? It wouldn’t put money in the pockets of the prison builders but it would almost certainly reduce crime — and it’s already going down.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty
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Prison reform needed to prevent in-custody deaths: ombudsman
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Sept. 8, 2010
Ombudsman Howard Sapers… said the Conservative government’s plan to put more people in prison and keep them there longer will only exacerbate ongoing problems in prisons, which are already ill-equipped to ensure the well being of inmates… Among the shortcomings that have been identified: a failure to recognize “suicide pre-indicators” among inmates; holding inmates with mental-health issues in isolation which made their medical problems even worse; and delays in responding to medical emergencies.
Tags: corrections, mental Health
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Talk about being out of step [more prisons]
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Aug 18 2010
Just as the U.S. is rethinking its high incarcerations rates and the Canadian Bar Association is urging alternatives to jail, the Harper government is pouring our money into “big box” jails and “tough on crime” rhetoric. Talk about being totally out of step!… If you want to send criminals back into society full of resentment, hatred and with enhanced skills in committing crime, then by all means support Harper’s crackdown on criminals.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Kingston protesters stand up for their city’s prison farm
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Aug 17 2010
Kingston now has the prison farms fiasco — yet another example of the Conservatives’ unscrupulous behaviour. Indeed, the Tories have a talent for alienating just about everyone these days. Even small “c” conservatives have been condemning the costly, ill-advised prison farm closures… these prison farms reflect Canadian values. Paving over thousands of acres of prime farmland to erect costly, for-profit, U.S.-style super-prisons when government statistics show crime rates are down defies reason.
Tags: corrections, participation
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Keep the prison farms running
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Aug. 11, 2010
The government’s main arguments in favour of closing the farms are lack of benefits and costs to taxpayers. Neither justification holds up to scrutiny… The government has not said what will replace the prison farms. Will these programs cost more, or less? Will they be more effective in reintegrating prisoners into society? What skills will be taught? In addition, replacing the foodstuffs produced on the farms may end up costing the taxpayer more than the cost of running the farms themselves.
Tags: budget, corrections
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