Tag Archive: Correctional Investigator

The worrying state of Canadian prisons

October 29, 2017 |

A previous post referenced the important work done by the Office of the Correctional Investigator, which gives an outside perspective on the state and problems of federal prisons in Canada.  The previous Correctional Investigator, Howard Sapers, is now leading an...

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The OCI: Insight into Canada’s prisons

September 26, 2017 |

Jails and prisons are out of the public eye; what goes on there tends to get very little scrutiny unless something very dramatic occurs.  However there is much evidence (for example the famous Stanford Prison Experiments) that in places where...

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