Posts Tagged ‘corrections’
When one mistake haunts the rest of your working life
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Jun 08 2010
The reason I can’t return to teaching and can’t find a job commensurate with my experience and education is that I have a criminal record… the effects of employment on mental health can be measured primarily in terms of their influence on one’s self-esteem. When people feel there is a purpose in life, regardless of the source of that purpose, and that they are contributing to society, they feel better about themselves. Regular and meaningful employment gives structure to those who otherwise would remain lost and alone.
Tags: corrections, participation
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Canada’s inhumane prison plan
Monday, May 31st, 2010
May 29, 2010
The Roadmap is the self-serving work of reactionary, authoritarian palookas… It is counter-intuitive and contra-historical: The crime rate has been declining for years, and there is no evidence cited to support any of the repression that is requested. It appears to defy a number of Supreme Court decisions, and is an affront, at least to the spirit of the Charter of Rights… The whole concept of prison should be terminated, except for violent criminals and chronic non-violent recidivists.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured
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Provinces fear hefty costs of federal get-tough crime bills
Friday, May 21st, 2010
May. 21, 2010
The federal government has not attached dollar figures to its many bills that aim to put more people behind bars for longer periods of time. But federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews revealed late last month that just one of his government’s bills is expected to cost $2-billion over five years. Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is expected to release a report next week that will say Mr. Toews’s cost estimate for Bill C-25 is billions of dollars too low, and that the provinces will be on the hook for 75 per cent of the money.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention
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Opposition balks at steep price of Tory crime bills
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
May. 18, 2010
The government is gradually restoring legislation introduced in the previous session that would impose longer sentences for some types of crimes and mandatory incarceration for others. Opposition members – the Liberals in particular – admit they were not fully supportive of the measures when they were originally introduced but were reluctant to block them because the Conservatives would accuse them of being soft on crime. But the slow trickle of information about the money that will be required to keep thousands more people in prison is providing them with a counter-attack.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention
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It’s no time to be complacent about doing time
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Apr. 15, 2010
The cost of crime is so high (estimated at $70-billion annually by Statistics Canada in 2003) that imprisonment of serious and repeat offenders is an excellent investment in purely economic terms – to say nothing of the value of restoring people’s faith in justice.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention
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The prison spending boom
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Mar. 31, 2010
The crime agenda is in direct conflict with the government’s stated goal of bringing the deficit under control. In frugal times there is an extra onus on government to justify a big boost to any budget, let alone to the prison budget during an era when crime is dropping. While nearly every other department, including the military and the Public Health Agency of Canada, faces cuts, 5,300 new corrections employees will be hired.
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Premier promises action on youth superjail
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Mar 31 2010
“… I know you get just a few opportunities to turn young people around,” McGuinty said. “We want to have the best kinds of programming in there so that it improves them as people,” he said. “And we’re not accomplishing that right now.”…
The plan, released Wednesday, includes phasing in more staff training, anger-management programs for detainees and improving the assessment process that determines to what unit youths are directed on arrival.
Tags: corrections
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Jail for youth not safe, report says
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Mar 30 2010
Ontario’s newest superjail for youth is not safe for its teenage inmates, a report by the province’s children and youth advocate says.
…the root of the centre’s “crisis” as a fundamental disagreement between staff and managers about how to run the facility: Should it be the inmates-behind-bars approach or a more progressive model? The ministry says it’s committed to the latter.
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Winners and losers in Ottawa’s deficit battle
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
April 1, 2010.
The documents revealed that spending on prisons is on the way up, while climate-change programs at Environment Canada and food safety programs at Agriculture Canada are set to expire.
The rankings show that departments poised to lose temporary stimulus money, such as Infrastructure Canada, Industry Canada and the regional development organizations, will see the biggest drop off in spending.
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