April 20, 2021 Department of Finance: Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2021/04/budget-2021-a-recovery-plan-for-jobs-growth-and-resilience.html CBC News Highlights of … [Read more...]
Follow the money…
April 20, 2021 by Michael Maher
Filed Under: News Tagged With: bail, child care, Criminological Highlights, Federal Budget 2021, jurors, Law Commission, pardons, public safety, secularism, slavery, small thefts, solitary, student loans, trial delay, victims, whiteness
Prison spending…
March 7, 2017 by Michael Maher
Mar 7, 2017 Blogger Justin Piché - Associate Professor, Criminology, University of Ottawa Government of Canada promises alternatives to confinement, while funding carceral expansion Piché reminds us that shortly after the last election, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: C-22, gender equality, mass incarceration, mental health, oversight, prison policy, prisons, RJ, sexual consent, social impact, trial delay, women
Cycle of punishment…
October 17, 2013 by Michael Maher
Oct. 16, 2013 CBC News Ashley Smith 'hopeless' weeks before death, inquest told Kim Pate thinks that Ashley Smith was stuck in a cycle of punishment. Pate testified that she wanted to have Smith transferred to hospital but that “once you're in … [Read more...]
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Ashley Smith, cyberbullying, discrimination, human trafficking, juveniles, sex offenders, trial delay