Mar 26, 2014
CBC Doc Zone
DEBUT: Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents March 27, 2014 at 9PM on CBC
The series starts with the anguished mother of Marc Lépine who later killed 14 women in Montreal. The question is whether in this case, or others, appropriate and effective intervention may have saved a lot of later pain and suffering. The documentary looks at ‘the sea-changes” in what we have learned about child development and the potential to turn aside from huge costs later for minor costs now. http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/angry-kids-stressed-out-parents Program promo: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/TV/cbc-doc–puts-poverty-programs-in-spotlight-252394131.html
Restorative Justice-on-line and International Center for Transitional Justice:
Inheriting the Struggle for Truth
Here is an article confronting the difficult questions around the search for truth involving terrible and mass crimes, a sobering reflection from the youth for us in Canada pre-occupied with the 600 plus missing or murdered Aboriginal women. The truth about the past is explored by six individuals, including a Canadian, with a view to the future health of the youth impacted by the crimes. “Knowing the truth,” says one of the advocates, Touré Issoumaila“is fundamental “to living in tranquility.” The Canadian spokesperson, Tamara Cremo is a Mi’kmaq woman and a member of We’koqma’q First Nation from Nova Scotia. She addresses the residential schools issue. Each witness offers a short video. http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/inheriting-the-struggle-for-truth ICTJ Centre: http://ictj.org/gallery/inheriting-struggle-truth#.UzFvz_ldVo1
Community News Common – Noah Erenberg
Restorative Justice — a different way
Erika Miller, a second year journalism student at Red River College in Manitoba won the Excellence in Journalism Award for Second Year Journalism from the Eric & Jack Wells Foundation for this four part series of articles on the RJ process. The series addresses healing, relationships, changing lives and mediation.http://www.communitynewscommons.org/our-neighbourhoods/journalism-student-receives-award-for-series-on-restorative-justice Series: http://www.communitynewscommons.org/restorative-justice-a-different-way-4-part-series
Prison Reform Trust (UK) – Jenny Earle, Rebecca Nadin and Jessica Jacobson
Brighter Futures: Working together to reduce women’s offending
Prison Reform Trust has released a new report from its three year study on ways to prevent the incarceration of women through intervention and support when the circumstances that cause the offending are taking place. The report also highlights the differences in offending and response needed between men and women. The 54 page report is available as a downloadable pdf. http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Brighter%20Futures%2025314web.pdf?dm_i=47L,2AATD,6JSCMH,8AA15,1 Related article: PRT – The relationship between finance and debt and women’s offending http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/PressPolicy/Consultationresponses?dm_i=47L,2AATD,6JSCMH,8AA15,1 (Go to the top of the resource list on the link.)
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Critics call for congressional probe of Georgia’s immigration detention centers
A coalition group of civil rights and immigration activists, including the ACLU, want two privately run immigration detention centers closed for constitutional and human rights violations and inhumane treatment of detainees. The two centers are remote but some detainees participate in a voluntary work for profit scheme. Needless to say, ICE is pushing back. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/critics-call-for-congressional-probe-of-georgias-i/nfLCc
ACLU – Stephen M. Watt and Allison Frankel
Only in America: 16-Year-Old Locked Up for the Rest of His Life
The ACLU is taking up the cause of Juwan Wickware and others – 2500 in the US and over 350 in Michigan alone – who have been sentence to life without parole (LWOP). The plan is to bring the plight of these youth to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The US is the only country in the world with LWOP as a possible sentence for youth. In Juwan’s case, the actual shooter was acquitted. https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-human-rights/only-america-16-year-old-locked-rest-his-life
RT (US)
Feds charge New York prison official with denying help to dying inmate
A Rikers Island (N.Y. City Jail) corrections officer has been charged by the FBI with “deliberately ignoring the medical needs of an inmate.” The inmate, 25 year old Jason Echevarria, was in the mental health assessment unit and died from swallowing a highly toxic soap ball distributed by another guard to deal with sewage flooding. http://rt.com/usa/pendergrass-rikers-echevarria-fbi-137