Stormy ways or sunny weather? Prisoners’ views of Canadian prisons
This post is about 1000 words and can be read in about 5 minutes. One of the best ways of understanding the state of an institution is to listen to the people who inhabit it. We learn about the reality...
Read MoreMissed Opportunities: Young Adults in Federal Prisons
This post is about 640 words and can be read in 3 minutes. The Canadian federal prison system is missing many opportunities to work more effectively with young people in federal prisons, according to a report issued in 2017 by...
Read MorePositive developments in the US prison system
This post is about 600 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Prisons provide another example of a field in which Canadians can point to our neighbours to the south and feel superior, even when in reality we may...
Read MoreCan Canadian prisons be improved?
This post is 800 words and can be read in about 4 minutes. The new head of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has been given a huge mandate for change in that organization, which operates Canada’s federal prisons and...
Read MoreCanadian organizations in criminal justice reform
This post is under 800 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Canada has many organizations that work in the area of criminal justice reform. Below is a list of organizations whose exclusive or main focus is on criminal...
Read MoreCanadians don’t like mandatory minimum sentences
This post is about 700 words and takes 3-4 minutes to read. The Liberal government elected in 2015 had as one of its election commitments ending mandatory minimum (MM) sentences for various crimes. Although the first mandatory minimums were put...
Read MoreSecurity level explains kinds of violence in Canadian prisons
This post is about 650 words and can be read in 3 minutes. Based on interviews with former male federal prisoners, Memorial University Professor Rose Ricciardelli found that higher levels of security in Canadian prisons produce higher rates of...
Read MoreChildren with jailed parents are also victims of crime
This post is about 820 words and takes about 4 minutes to read. Children with parents in jail are also victims of crime, whose needs and interests have so far received very little attention from the justice system. One of...
Read MoreEverything you were never taught about Canada’s prison system
This post is about 700 words and takes 3 minutes to read. About a year ago, a website called intersectionalanalyst.com published a piece on Canada’s prison system. The website describes itself as “Making sense of complex social problems through information...
Read MoreRehabilitation can work
Why do we send people to jail? Although jail is taken for granted as a punishment for many crimes, people often don’t think much beyond that. Someone does something wrong, the response is punishment, and the common punishment is time...
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