#corrections-canada

It seemed like a precious rare gem - a political promise fulfilled - until it was revealed to be that much more common trinket, a political half-measure, occluded by hedging. In 2010, the opposition Liberals

Ever since the deaths of Ashley Smith in 2007 and Eddie Snowshoe in 2010, there has been an increased focus on the use of solitary confinement in Canada. In the past two months, there has been a significant

Canada’s Correctional Investigator said the number of Indigenous people locked up in prisons across the country is now a human rights issue. “That the incarceration rate for Indigenous people keeps climbing

In the wake of the acquittal of Gerald Stanley in the death of Colten Boushie, there have been loud calls for reform to address Canada’s blatant systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Boushie,