‘We’re shoulder to shoulder’: COVID-19 safety measures lacking at Montreal jail says Mohawk man
Lifting of restrictions means people convicted of minor crimes head back behind bars.
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Family looking for answers after Wolastoqey man dies from COVID-19 while jail
Skyler Brent Sappier-Soloman, 28, was almost finished his three-month sentence when he died from complications…
Family in Alberta still waiting for answers on how Blackfoot man died in Calgary jail
Alberta Serious Incident Response Team backlog goes back to 2018.
Second man from Sagkeeng First Nation dies while in custody
Chief of Sagkeeng First Nation says family is looking for answers ‘They need to know what happened.’
Advocates say better release system from jail needed after mother found frozen to death
Female inmates lack reintegration programs after being released.
Justice advocates in Yukon calling on government to get a move on building halfway house for women
Little word on project since tender went out in August
Manitoba defends pandemic response plan after outbreak at provincial jail
The Manitoba government says it has implemented several new protocols since declaring a COVID-19 outbreak…
Quebec coroner investigating Echaquan death admits that file of Inuk man Sivuak Eliyassialuk slipped through the cracks
APTN News investigation into death of Jimmy Sivuak Eliyassialuk raises red flags for coroner about how his death was investigated.
Ontario has vowed to protect the spread of COVID-19 in jails, but what are they really doing?
Some inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre are angry that the jail isn’t doing enough…