May 7, 2014 Halifax Herald – Paul McLeod More parole board refusals keep prisoners in jail longer, AG says This report suggests that a 14% increase in the failure to achieve discretionary parole accounts for the 9% growth in the … [Read more...]
On filling jails…
May 7, 2014 By Michael Maher
Filed Under: News Tagged With: aurcharges, justice, lawyers, mental illness, parole, prisons, RJ, SCC, social equity
NCR and high risk…
November 25, 2013 By Michael Maher
Nov. 25, 2013 CTV News – Canadian Press Tories re-introduce NCR legislation, which includes high-risk designation Justice Minister Peter McKay announced the federal government will re-introduce the bill to make more difficult the release … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: bias, child abuse, enhanced screening, immigration, income inequality, NCR, prisons, social equity
FASD
September 16, 2013 By Michael Maher
July 30, 2013 Toronto Star – Guest opinion by Shelia Burns Turning around Ontario lives hurt by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder The author, a Community Leadership in Justice Fellow, Law Foundation of Ontario, says that fetal alcohol … [Read more...]
Prorogation and C-54
August 22, 2013 By Michael Maher
Aug. 22, 2013 The Tri-Cities Now (Coquitlam, BC) – Jeremy Deutsch Victims disappointed - Prime Minister prorogues and stalls bill C-54 In 2008 in Merritt, BC, Allan Schoenborn killed the three children of Darcie Clark. C-54 was intended … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: C-54, health care, income inequality, marijuana, mental illness, prisons, RJ, smart-on-crime, social equity
Smart-on-crime
August 17, 2013 By Michael Maher
Aug. 16, 2013 U.S. Attorney General Smart on Crime: Reforming the Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century This document, released by the Attorney General offers five goals and five principles for implementing Smart-on-crime. There are … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: cyberbullying, gangs, mass incarceration, mental illness, safety, smart-on-crime, social equity, stats
7-24 centre in inner city
August 2, 2013 By Michael Maher
Aug. 2, 2013 CBC News - Winnipeg Inner-city kids petition for 24-hour drop-in centre - Activist says centre would help keep kids safe from gangs Romando Nilles, a youthful community worker in the North End of Winnipeg, was on the verge of taking … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: gangs, mentally ill, RJ, social equity, social inequality, solitary, violence
FASD
July 30, 2013 By Michael Maher
July 30, 2013 Toronto Star – Guest opinion by Shelia Burns Turning around Ontario lives hurt by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder The author, a Community Leadership in Justice Fellow, Law Foundation of Ontario, says that fetal alcohol … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: FASD, gangs, guns, police, RJ in Art, sexual abuse, social equity
NCR in bombing attempt?
July 29, 2013 By Michael Maher
July 29, 2013 Vancouver Sun – Louise Dickson, Times Colonist B.C. Legislature bomb plot accused John Nuttall in psychiatric hospital Defense lawyer Thomas Morino says that Nutall, (and probably his co-accused Amanda Marie Korody) has been … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: gangs, mentally ill, NCR, RJ, social equity, solitary, temporary absences
Not lower, again?
July 26, 2013 By Michael Maher
July 26, 2013 Globe and Mail – Jill Mahoney Canada’s crime rate drops to lowest level since 1972 The crime rate and the crime severity rate both dropped again in 2012, both by 3%. Homicides are down by 10%, critics say the crimes in the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: costs, gangs, hiring, marijuana, mentally ill, RJ, social capital, social equity, stats, systemic justice, violence
Wagemark
July 25, 2013 By Michael Maher
July 25, 2013 Toronto Star – Carol Goar New ‘Wagemark’ logo for fair-wage companies Here’s an idea! How about if there were a logo a company could display when it held to an in-house rule that no executive could be compensated … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: porn, poverty, prison reform, social equity, stats, Wagemark