Post #296 900 words; 3 minutes to read Summary: Being denied bail can be a major reason people decide to plead guilty even when they have a reasonable defense against a criminal charge. Cases of wrongful conviction are big news...
Read MorePost 282 600 words, 3 minutes to read Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Jada Lam Post by Felicia De Sousa , Ph D Student Summary: Evidence shows that police discretion whether to charge youth is applied unevenly by police, with racialized...
Read MorePost #280 1000 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Jada Lam. Summary: The Incarceration Nations Network is an international effort to support, through a number of projects improvements in criminal justice and support for people around...
Read MorePost #276 1150 words; 5 minutes to read Summary: Two recent press stories on proposals for bail ‘reform’ ignore key facts and mislead readers about the real issues. Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Kimberly Duong. On Sat, Sept 6, on...
Read MorePost #271 700 words; 3 minutes to read Editor’s note: I asked one of our terrific student volunteers to review the recent report by Ontario’s ombudsman on the state of provincial jails. She was so incensed by what was in...
Read MoreThis editorial was published online in Law360 Canada on Friday, March 29, 2025. Reprinted with permission and may be freely reproduced and distributed as long as the original source is acknowledged. By Catherine Latimer, Executive Director, John Howard Society of...
Read MorePost #253 570 words; 3 minutes to read La version française suit par la bénévole Rachel Cauver Summary: Being jailed increases the chances of being homeless, and makes it harder to escape that situation. Audio summary by volunteer Kimberly Duong....
Read MorePost #250 940 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Kimberly Duong. This post is a summary of a blog post from the Prison Policy Initiative in the US: Research roundup: Evidence that a single day in jail...
Read MorePost #545 1000 words; 5 minutes to read By Benjamin Perrin. Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Kimberly Duong. Benjamin Perrin is a law professor at the University of British Columbia and the author of the bestselling book, Indictment: The Criminal...
Read MorePost #237 1300 words; 5 minutes to read A report from the CCLA shows that the public and media conversation on bail is entirely inconsistent with the research evidence, which is that bail is too hard to get, with dire...
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