Jan 16, 2024 – Integration of services…

Smart Justice Network Jan 16, 2024 – Integration of services…   What is Integrated Youth Services (IYS)? The link offers, among other things,  a five-minute explanation of Integrated Youth Services, an effort to confront the many faceted … [Read more...]

Sept 18, 2023 – Double jeopardy…

Sept 18, 2023 – Double jeopardy…   CBC News - Olivia Bowden His brother died in an Ontario jail. Advocates say calls for reform to prevent such deaths are being ignored - Ashton Gray, 34, died by suicide in Toronto South Detention Centre … [Read more...]

June 22, 2023 – Outrageous response

June 22, 2023 – Outrageous response   Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) Stop Barrie City Council Criminalizing Homelessness This approach to a problem reaches the apex of Not-in-my-backyard – go to someone else’s backyard.  … [Read more...]

March 24, 2023 – Deaths of incarcerated persons…

March 24, 2023 – Deaths of incarcerated persons…   CBC News – Clara Pasieka Doubling of inmate deaths in Ontario prompts call for correctional oversight body - Open letter this week calls for 'immediate action' by province's solicitor … [Read more...]

Smorgasbord…

Oct 20, 2022 University of Toronto / Criminological Highlights - Anthony Doob, Rosemary Gartner, Maria Jung, Tyler King, Jane Sprott, and Audrey Macklin. This issue of Criminological Highlights addresses the following questions, all very much in … [Read more...]

Overcoming the system…

July 5, 2021 CBC News – Desmond Brown Sexually assaulted at 8, incarcerated 4 times and lost the will to live — how this woman found her stars - ‘Just everywhere I went there was ... something going on with being a victim,’ Jessica Compton … [Read more...]

Deaf ears and hard hearts…

June 28, 2021 Twitter from Barbara Low – The Kamloops and Marieval discoveries have a chance of prompting more determined political and social action.  Indigenous people of Canada have long struggled to make their perspective known to the political … [Read more...]

Say it ain’t so…

Dec 20, 2020 Toronto Star - Alyshah Hasham Legal groups say Ontario misled public with claim it reduced inmate population by 30 per cent early in pandemic There’s a lot, to rely on an old jail joke, depends on the way you tell the story.  Two … [Read more...]

Fixing…

Dec 10, 2020 Senate of Canada – Sponsor Senator Kim Pate S-207 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (Independence of the judiciary) The bill has already passed first reading and the second reading is scheduled to start today.  The Bill aims at … [Read more...]

Youth in focus…

Oct 21, 2020 Campaign for Youth Justice (US) WINNING THE CAMPAIGN: State Trends in Fighting the Treatment of Children as Adults in the Criminal Justice System 2005 – 2020 The link gives both the current status and the trending in the way the … [Read more...]