Archives for April 2015

MOMS…

    April 16, 2015 (Ed note: A group of mothers who gather for mutual support and whose children are locked up in the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre were invited to speak at the recent public forum sponsored by Dr. Aaron Doyle of Carleton … [Read more...]

For the record…

    April 15, 2015  Toronto Star Four ways the Supreme Court has battled the Conservatives on crime The failure of federal legislation to meet the test of the Charter of Rights continues.  Here, the STAR lists the rejections from the SCC on the … [Read more...]

Discretion wins…

     April 14, 2015  CBC News – Canadian Press Supreme Court quashes mandatory sentences for gun crimes - Ontario ruling that struck down mandatory minimum sentences of 3 and 5 years is upheld By a 6-3 margin, the SCC has ruled that minimum … [Read more...]

Special: Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre

    A special from the Smart Justice Network of Canada… April 13, 2015 – Ottawa Carlton Detention Centre in Chronic Crisis Criminalization and Punishment Education Project Tracking the Politics of Criminalization and Punishment in Canada:  Aaron … [Read more...]

One in five…

    April 13, 2015  Globe and Mail – Patrick White One in five federal inmates spent time in solitary confinement last year Liberal MP Irwin Cotler and once Minister of Justice in Canada wanted to know the rate for the use of solitary … [Read more...]

Update due…

    April 10, 2015  APTN News - Jorge Barrera RCMP to release ‘update’ report on murdered, missing Indigenous women file in May  The RCMP plan to update their last report on the murdered and missing women.  They say that 46% of the victims fall … [Read more...]

Suicide epidemic…

      April 7, 2015  Toronto Star – Sandro Contenta Nunavut’s youth suicide epidemic — ‘Who is next? How do we stop this?’    There were 45 suicides in Nunavut in 2013.  The number dropped in 2014 to 27.  Few drew comfort that the number was … [Read more...]