Upcoming event on solitary confinement
November 16-30 online spotlight on solitary confinement in Canada. Check back for the link.
Read MoreRethinking violent crime
Post #154 950 words; 4 minutes to read Many discussions of crime treat so-called ‘violent crimes’ as a special subset that deserves a different, and harsher, response. But there are compelling reasons to be dubious about this distinction. Many of...
Read MoreReport: Replacement for segregation in federal prisons does not meet legal standards
A new report on the response of Canadian prisons to court rulings on the illegality of segregation shows that these ‘special intervention units’ (SIU) do not appear to be meeting the minimum standards set by the government. The full report...
Read MoreHarms of remand – evidence from Denmark
Post #153 650 words; 3 minutes to read The majority (about 60%) of people held in provincial jails in Canada have not been found guilty of anything and this pattern has been getting worse in recent years. They are being...
Read MoreJohn Howard Canada creates LinkedIn page
To increase access to its activities, John Howard Canada has created a LinkedIn page that will features some of our work. The link is https://www.linkedin.com/company/john-howard-society/ Feel free to follow us!
Read MorePrison experience part 6 – Social structure, culture and language
Post #152 About 1200 words; 5 minutes to read. This is the fifth in an ongoing series of posts sent to us by a former prisoner who wishes to remain anonymous. Previous posts in this series are here (#1), here...
Read MorePrisoners on Prisons
Post # 151 710 words; 3 minutes to read Most Canadians have very little sense of what it is like to be in prison. Perhaps most people don’t care, on the theory that ‘if you are in prison it’s for...
Read MoreCould expungement of criminal records hurt more people than it helps?
Post # 150 About 100 words; 5 minutes to read. This post is adapted with permission from a longer article by the same authors posted by The Niskanen Centre, a US policy organization. This is an issue in which the...
Read MorePrison experience part 5 – Food in the assessment unit
prison-food Post # 149 1300 words; 5 minutes to read This is the fifth in an ongoing series of posts sent to us by a former prisoner who wishes to remain anonymous. Previous posts in this series are here (#1),...
Read MoreConvict criminology
Post #148 720 words; 3 minutes to read In most social policy systems, having experience in the system is held to be an advantage for those who study it. In some fields, such as medicine, virtually all those who teach...
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