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
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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…
Number of Indigenous youth in Manitoba jails ‘significantly greater’ than in other parts of Canada
A report by Manitoba’s advocate for children and youth says that Indigenous youth are overrepresented…
Nunavut journalist becomes only person banned from all five Nunavut prisons
Nunavut’s Baffin Correctional Centre (BCC) is infamous. The Auditor General of Canada said the facility…
‘It’s a right’: Spiritual services in provincial jails far from standard across the country
A Mi’kmaw man was denied access to Indigenous spiritual services in a New Brunswick jail…
NWT RCMP under fire again for taking sexual assault victim to jail rather than hospital
For the second time in two years, the RCMP in the Northwest Territories is…
Majority of provinces, territories lack ‘indispensable’ Gladue report-writing programs
Brittany Guyot APTN News The majority of provinces and territories in Canada don’t have an…