Dec 20, 2021 CBC News – Darren Major Indigenous women make up almost half the female prison population, ombudsman says - Canada's prison ombudsman says Indigenous incarceration rates are at a 'historic high' This headline has to make us stop and … [Read more...]
Stumbling blindly…
May 17, 2020 by
May 17, 2020 CBC News – Kathleen Harris Halt drug possession charges during pandemic to stem spike in overdose deaths, advocates say Advocates for harm reduction are suggesting that the anxiety around Covid-19 and the attendant limitations on life … [Read more...]
E-carceration…
November 21, 2018 by
Nov 21, 2018 N.Y. Times – Michelle Alexander The Newest Jim Crow – Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of “e-carceration.” Alexander, lawyer and author of the well-known New Jim Crowe, occasionally writes a … [Read more...]