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www.intersectionalanalyst.com Feb 16, 2018 In August 2016, Colten Boushie was murdered by Gerald Stanley, a 56-year old white farmer, in Saskatchewan. Boushie was a young, 22-year old Indigenous man from

As a middle-aged woman, you get used to becoming invisible. Bartenders no longer see you, never mind taxi drivers. It’s not surprising to have your partner turn to you with a start and say, “Whoa! I forgot

Since 2012, at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, a steady stream of body bags have been carried out the door. Eight men died of drug overdose inside the jail in a six-year period, and now, a new

Prisoners struggling with opiate addictions in British Columbia jails have gained the same right to medical treatment as people outside the corrections system. B.C. Corrections has implemented a new policy

Older inmates are posing a new problem for Canada's prison system. The Correctional Service of Canada is developing a strategy to adapt the system, but it may come too late to meet the needs of many elderly

It is getting to be a real crime. All is not well in Canada’s prison system and Public Safety minister Ralph Goodale, charged with making it better, is working against the clock. In fact, a fuse is hissing

Ottawa’s public consultation on criminal-sentencing reforms mustn’t contribute to further delay - or worse still, be used as a justification for doing the minimum. As the Trudeau government launches its

Five months after receiving a curt phone call from a Milton jail telling him his wife was dead, Herb Gratton still doesn’t know what actually happened to her. None of the authorities involved — not the

Manitoba wants to divert more people away from jail, a new report on changes to the justice system says. "This is about creating safer communities, it's about creating better access to justice, and

As a high-school teacher, Lindsay Brown encourages her students to think globally and act locally, so they might make a difference in the world. Brown exemplifies that attitude as a volunteer driver with

In a report published this week following a recommendation by Canada's prison watchdog, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) identified kitchen staff walkouts as the "catalytic event" that could

A program that lets incarcerated mothers record bedtime stories for their children, has restarted after a three-year hiatus to the delight of a former prisoner who used the service. When Jodi-Lynn Joseph

Report shows many requests from terminally ill inmates for special parole are rejected The federal prison watchdog is urging more "compassionate" parole options and a ban on medically assisted

I am sitting in a courtroom at the Old City Hall courthouse in Toronto watching a trial for someone we’ll call Jim. I don’t know Jim. There’s a high probability he was homeless because it’s provincial

We are wasting money on prisons in Canada. Not that we should remove them, but they are certainly being overused. Prior to the mid-1990s it was widely accepted that imprisonment is a necessary evil that

Brian Rose could be in prison right now. He could be languishing behind bars, his mental health spiralling downwards, his needs attended to by guards instead of psychiatrists and nurses. Rose, 37, has

A historic decision has put Canada at the forefront of an international movement against solitary confinement. The B.C. Supreme Court found that Canadian laws governing solitary (or administrative segregation)

A threefold increase over 10 years in the number of people awaiting trial while in Nova Scotia jails is "extremely problematic," says a legal advocate. According to a Statistics Canada report

Canada's federal prison service has approved the first transfer of a transgender inmate to an institution based on gender identity rather than physical anatomy, CBC News has learned. Fallon Aubee, who

Inmate advocates say the high cost of phone calls at Nova Scotia's provincial jails is isolating those behind bars from their families and hindering their chances of rehabilitation. "We're incarcerating