The Doers and Watchers…

    Feb 5, 2015 Church Council on Justice and Corrections and Circles of Support and Accountability Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA): An Effective Approach to Community Safety  The government funding of the CoSA programs stops the … [Read more...]

How far without CoSA?

   April 26, 2014  Prairie Messenger – John Penner I was in prison: unconditional support is Easter hope   This article is about the involvement of prison visitor in the work of post-prison care for the most vulnerable of inmates: the sexual … [Read more...]

Solitary, again!

   Mar 21, 2014  StraightTalk.com (BC) – Travis Lupick Prisoner advocates say coroner’s inquest on solitary deaths missed an opportunity for reform   Mountain Institution (BC) has had three inmate deaths while in solitary in eight months.  UBC … [Read more...]

Update from CoSA…

  Mar 18, 2014  From our friends at CoSA – Susan Love Circles of Support & Accountability Update  As many of you have heard, on February 21st CoSA sites across Canada were informed by Correctional Services Canada (CSC) that contracts would not … [Read more...]

What price, what security?

 Mar 6, 2014  Toronto Star – Richard J. Brennan Pan Am Games security costs jump again, but province won’t say why   The original price tag was $113 million.  Then the cost went to $206 million.  Now it’s at $239 million and shows no signs – or … [Read more...]

CoSA loses federal funding

 Feb. 27, 2014  CoSA federal government funding ends the end of March  Advocates and volunteers alike in the most widely respected and effective program for working with sex offenders, Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), are reeling … [Read more...]