John Howard comment on solitary confinement
May 11, 2021
| JHS in the News
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/life-in-solitary-takes-torturous-toll-574292452.html
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A model of misinformation – The CSC Annual Report
Post # 160 About 900 words; 3-4 minutes to read. Transparency is an often used word but seldom observed practice in government. Nowhere is this contradiction between theory and practice more evident than in the annual report of the Correctional...
Read MoreAction on Solitary Confinement
November 29, 2020
Post # 157 For the last two weeks, John Howard Canada has partnered with several other organizations to promote awareness of the problem of solitary confinement in Canada’s prisons. Notwithstanding several court decisions and new legislation last year, the problems...
Read MoreOne experience of segregation
November 18, 2020
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This post was first published in November, 2018 on our blog. It gives one person’s experience of solitary confinement in a Canadian provincial jail. It is republished in connection with the current ‘Spotlight on Solitary’ campaign. More information on that...
Read MoreSpotlight on Solitary Begins
Join us and many other correctional law based entities from November 16-30, 2020 as we examine how solitary confinement still exists in Canada. Press Release View our press release below or download it here. Events See the full schedule of...
Read MoreReport: Replacement for segregation in federal prisons does not meet legal standards
October 27, 2020
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 MorePrison Experience – Part 1
March 23, 2020
700 words 3 minutes to read By Anonymous (Work sent to us by a former prisoner who does not wish to be identified) I ‘did time’ in several prisons in Canada a few years ago. First, I had nearly 3...
Read MoreGerman prisons better and cheaper
March 6, 2020
Post #126 830 words; 4 minutes to read Canada’s Correctional Investigator recently released yet another annual report drawing attention to some of the terrible conditions in Canada’s prisons, and the seeming indifference, if not outright opposition, of the government...
Read MoreUniversity editorial on criminal justice
November 17, 2019
800 words; 4 minutes to read The following is an edited version of an editorial that appeared in the November 15 issue of the University of Manitoba student newspaper, The Manitoban. We reproduce it here as an example of excellent...
Read MorePosts worth a second look
October 17, 2019
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600 words; 3 minutes to read. The introductory post for this blog was in early September of 2017, just over two years ago. Since then we have posted well over 100 items on various aspects of criminal justice. Many...
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