At John Howard Society Canada, we have arranged for some activities that we hope will raise public awareness about our charity and its engagement on issues and delivery of services to further just, effective, and humane responses to the causes...
Read MorePost #209 About 800 words; 4 minutes to read By Emily Stewart, Blog Associate Editor Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Hannah Lee Summary: Discusses four of the main issues in the 2021 report of the Correctional Investigator on Canada’s prisons....
Read MorePost #208 800 words; 4 minutes to read. Summary: US commentator Alec Karakatsanis debunks much media and political propaganda about crime. Audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee. The last few weeks have seen an onslaught of media stories and political...
Read MorePost #203 675 words; 3 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Bella Kiss. This week we publish two quite different views on the 30th anniversary of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA), the law that governs prisons and...
Read MorePost # 202 950 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Riley Mintz In this post we reprint in its entirety a release issued by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in September. The release, now signed on the...
Read MorePost #201 800 words; 4 minutes to read By volunteer Emily Stewart (who also did the audio summary) In Canada, most people arrested and detained by police are released until trial after a bail hearing. Release on bail is generally...
Read MorePost #200 500 words; 2 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee. This blog started 5 years ago as an experiment. Was there a place for a Canadian online publication that addressed important issues in criminal justice, especially...
Read MorePost #199 850 words; 4 minutes to read This audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee. One of the biggest obstacles to decreasing crime and improving public safety is the human propensity to want to punish people for bad behaviour instead...
Read MorePost #198 680 words; 3 minutes to read This audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee. Last September we published a post on the report by the Senate of Canada Committee on human rights of prisoners in Canada. The Committee was...
Read MorePost #197 970 words; 4 minutes to read. Audio summary by volunteer Hannah Lee. The enormous over-representation of Indigenous people in Canada’s courts and prisons is well known. As one way of dealing with this problem, the Supreme Court of...
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