Prison
Ottawa needs to end ‘racist’ classification policies against Indigenous inmates: advocates
A case to be heard before the Supreme Court of Canada Thursday involving a Metis man could have far-reaching impacts across the prison system, including helping Indigenous female inmates.
Justin Hudson sentenced to 23 years for role in attack on two Winnipeg women
One of two men, who took part in the violent attacks against two women in Winnipeg in Nov. 2014, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Indigenous inmates and their treatment within Corrections Canada – InFocus
Personal experience backs up facts that Indigenous inmates fair worse in Canada’s jails
Alberta Crown drops retrial of woman with IQ of 50 wrongfully convicted of murder
(( Wendy Scott in a Facebook photo posted in 2008. The Crown stayed a murder…
Justice tracking more than 100 constitutional challenges to mandatory penalties
Tough on crime legislation brought in by Conservatives bogging down the system.
Federal prison corporation’s selling of moccasins, drums for revenue ‘exploitative,’ says Cree-Metis artist
Should federal prisons be selling mocassins and drums made by inmates?
New Montreal justice centre aims to fill gaps in system for Indigenous offenders
The group’s first goal is to convince the city to start providing Indigenous offenders with alternatives to prison
Yukon justice critic calls for end of ‘destructive’ solitary confinement
APTN National News Solitary confinement is coming under fire again – this time in the…