TRC…

     Dec 16, 2015 CBC News – Susana Mas Truth and Reconciliation final report charts path to 'true reconciliation' Justice Murray Sinclair is hoping for a new era in relationship with Canada’s First Nations.  In releasing the final report of the … [Read more...]

More jail cells…

  July 18, 2014  Penal Field – Justin Piché A Contradictory and Finishing State - Explaining Recent Prison Capacity Expansion in Canada’s Provinces and Territories  A little earlier in the tough-on-crime debates the question of double bunking and … [Read more...]

Consecutive sentences…

  Mar 2, 2014  Globe and Mail – Sean Fine Push for consecutive mandatory minimum sentences may run afoul of Criminal Code  Consecutive sentences are sentences for multiple convictions that follow each other rather than merge with each other.  … [Read more...]

A tax on broken souls…

  Dec. 10, 2013  Globe and Mail – Sean Fine Judges defy order to impose Tories’ victim-services surcharge   Describing fines on impoverished defendants as “a tax on broken souls,” there appears to be a growing resistance to the idea of making … [Read more...]

Eliminating long term solitary…

 May 22, 2013  BC Civil Liberties Association Aboriginal woman settles lawsuit over 3½ years solitary confinement  The BC Civil Liberties Association has secured a settlement to a lawsuit filed in March 2011 for BobbyLee Worm, an Aboriginal woman … [Read more...]

Do-it-yourself deluge

May 18, 2013  Toronto Star – Carol Goar Do-it-yourself-law — a trickle becomes a deluge  What do poor people do when charged in court?  They represent themselves!  Here is the distressing description of what poor people go through when they do … [Read more...]

The inhumane practice of solitary confinement!

April 12, 2013  Bloomberg Press (US) – Editorial (April 11, 2013) The Inhumane Practice of Solitary Confinement Say the Bloomberg editors:  “The use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and detention centers has broken the bounds of reason and … [Read more...]