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Pleading guilty when innocent: A truth for too many Indigenous people
Pleading guilty when innocent: A truth for too many Indigenous people
Every day innocent people – a disproportionate number of them First Nations, Inuit and Métis people – plead guilty to crimes they did not commit (and sometimes crimes that did not happen). A lucky few
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A tough-on-drugs stance in the Canadian prison system harms prisoners
A tough-on-drugs stance in the Canadian prison system harms prisoners
A new pilot program in two Canadian prisons is a sign that our prisons can change. The department responsible for our federal prison system, Correctional Service Canada, announced this week that it will
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He died after guards beat and pepper-sprayed him, according to video. The province refuses to release the footage, citing labour relations
He died after guards beat and pepper-sprayed him, according to video. The province refuses to release the footage, citing labour relations
Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is keeping secret the video detailing the last moments of a man who died in solitary confinement at a Lindsay jail after a three-hour
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Needle exchanges coming to 2 Canadian prisons
Needle exchanges coming to 2 Canadian prisons
Inmates at two federal prisons who use injection drugs will have access to clean syringes beginning in June, with the Correctional Service of Canada planning to roll out the service at other institutions
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If we truly want to rehabilitate incarcerated youth, we must stop putting them in solitary confinement
If we truly want to rehabilitate incarcerated youth, we must stop putting them in solitary confinement
A couple of weeks ago, a jury looking into the suicide of Yousef Mohamed Hussein, an inmate who took his own life in segregation in an Ottawa detention centre back in 2016, came out with 29 recommendations
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Canada needs to clear the air – and wipe away criminal records for marijuana
Canada needs to clear the air – and wipe away criminal records for marijuana
Legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada is only a few months away, but it's going to take a lot longer than that to clean up the mess left behind from almost a century of prohibition. One of the
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There’s nothing ‘illegal’ about asylum seekers
There’s nothing ‘illegal’ about asylum seekers
Amid a global refugee crisis, the misuse of the term ‘illegal’ carries a real cost. We are concerned about a recent spike in the use of the term “illegal” to characterize asylum seekers crossing the
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We must end discrimination in jury selection
We must end discrimination in jury selection
The peremptory challenge − the unfettered ability of lawyers to exclude a limited number of otherwise qualified jurors from serving − has come under intense scrutiny over the last 35 years. In 1986, the
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'A human rights issue': Lack of treatment for drug users means deaths behind bars
'A human rights issue': Lack of treatment for drug users means deaths behind bars
Michelle McPherson's son Curtis McGowan was rushed to the Guelph, Ont., hospital by paramedics after overdosing, where he was revived with the opioid-reversal drug naloxone. "The police were there

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