Correctional Service Canada is trying to update its inmate tracking system, while the panel tasked to study solitary confinement is still waiting for any usable information
Tag Archives: prisons
The dark side of Canada’s coronavirus response
When it comes to protecting some of the most vulnerable—prisoners and asylum seekers—Canada is not taking any extraordinary measures
What the death of a mentally ill inmate tells us about Canadian justice
The coroner’s report on Soleiman Faqiri’s death in an Ontario prison has finally arrived. It’s long on gruesome detail and short on accountability.
The mental health crisis in Canadian prisons
Soleiman Faqiri, who died after a confrontation with prison guards, is just the latest case of an inmate with mental illness dying inside a Canadian prison
Prisons want more power to strip search in anti-drug move
It should be easier to search inmates and visitors, say regulations introduced Friday
A shocking look at American Prisons
A review of ‘Inferno: An Anatomy of Punishment’ by Robert A. Ferguson
The tough on crime era
‘The deeply embedded nastiness of the current governing party’
The Commons: Less acrimony from Vic Toews, more questions for him
The Commons: The Public Safety Minister makes himself clear
The Commons: Horrible reality intrudes
Bob Rae holds the House with questions about Ashley Smith
Equality before the law
Irwin Cotler criticizes the Harper government’s decision to cut prison chaplains.