Mother’s Day…

May 6, 2022 Globe and Mail – Patrick White ‘Shocking and shameful’: For the first time, Indigenous women make up half the female population in Canada’s federal prisons While the 50 /50 split in federally incarcerated women between non-Indigenous … [Read more...]

Home for Father’s Day…

June 20, 2021 (Ed note:  Father’s Day may be a good time to pause for a moment to remember the families pained by the incarcerated family members.  Canadian Families Correctional Network works to ease that pain, to cope with the separation, and to … [Read more...]

Tensions…

April 27, 2020 CTV News – Colin Perkel Federal prison tensions rise amid COVID lockdowns; activists want releases The tensions created by the Coronavirus and the prisoners locked up without much defence is beginning to boil over in at least two … [Read more...]

Dad Hero…

Aug. 11, 2018 Canadian Families and Corrections Network (CFCN) Dad HERO (HELPING EVERYONE REALIZE OPPORTUNITIES) This organization (CFCN) is helping families cope with some of the fall-out on families and children from the jailing of parents.  … [Read more...]

Bail now…

Oct 31, 2017 Ministry of the Attorney General (ON) – Ontario Unveils New Bail Directive to Reduce Pre-Trial Custody -  Province Making the Criminal Justice System Faster and Fairer The Ontario government has just released a new approach to bail … [Read more...]