This post is about 500 words and can be read in about 2 minutes. Opinion by Christin Cullen, Executive Director, John Howard York Region Our current system for police background checks is a barrier to employment for far too many...
Read MoreThis post is about 600 words and can be read in 3 minutes. For many people who commit crimes, and their families and loved ones, their sentence is only the beginning of their problems. As other posts have described, people...
Read MoreThis post is about 700 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Margot Van Sluytman is a well known Canadian advocate for restorative justice, based on her experience following the murder of her father. She recently posted this moving...
Read MoreThis post is about 600 words and can be read in 3 minutes. “Children of incarcerated parents, including parents detained in relation to immigration, are a vulnerable population that experience complex long-term psychological, social and economic disadvantages.” So begins a...
Read MoreThis post is about 1000 words and can be read in about 4 minutes. This is the first part of a story sent to us by a prisoner at a Quebec federal prison, describing a visit to an Aboriginal healing...
Read MoreAutomatic elimination of criminal records makes sense and saves money too! Senator Kim Pate, long a staunch advocate for reform of criminal justice in Canada, has introduced a bill in the Senate that calls for automatic expiry of criminal records...
Read MoreThis post is about 700 words and can be read in about 3 minutes. By Peter Small, AdvocateDaily.com Contributor Reprinted with the permission of AdvocateDaily.com A criminal record contributes to more crime Society’s branding of someone as a criminal becomes...
Read MoreThis post is 800 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. This is an edited and modified version of a paper written by Prof. Belinda Winder and Prof. Nicholas Blagden which appeared in The Conversation. The original paper had...
Read MoreThis post is about 950 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. By Emily O’Brien This is the second post about my experience with the criminal justice system. The first post is here. The pop star Bono coined the...
Read MoreThis post is about 800 words and can be read in 3-4 minutes. Although most people think that the court sentence is the hardest part of being convicted of a crime, for many of the millions of Canadians who have...
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