Yukon vows to improve life for inmates at Whitehorse jail, following report
Luke SmithAPTN NewsThe Yukon government is vowing to improve life for inmates at the Whitehorse…
Luke SmithAPTN NewsThe Yukon government is vowing to improve life for inmates at the Whitehorse…
Almost four years after a group of inmates launched human rights complaints against a…
Personal experience backs up facts that Indigenous inmates fair worse in Canada’s jails
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News Just like they said they would a group of inmates…
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News After being hit with a hunger strike before Christmas the…
APTN National News There are no hard numbers to determine how many inmates in Canada’s…
The federal government won’t be making any changes as a result of the hard-hitting report from Canada’s correctional investigator released Thursday which again sounded the alarm over a growing crisis involving rising rates of First Nation, Inuit and Metis people behind bars.
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is gathering statements from prisoners in Canada’s jails.
Following a story Wednesday about alleged inmate abuse in the Winnipeg remand centre, APTN National News is now probing why inmate complaints seem to be not thoroughly investigated.