Prison News | Canada
Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Canada. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.
Contents
Education & Rehabilitation
No recent news for Canada in this category.
Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty
No recent news for Canada in this category.
Gangs in Prison
- 50% Canadians believe prison life "too cushy," 33% believe it's "just right"
When asked on their attitudes about prison life in Canadian prisons, respondents across the country were mostly approving......[
more]
Insideprison.com, Wednesday, November 1, 2006
- Federal prisons discriminate against aboriginals, says ombudsman
The Canadian prison system is practising "systemic discrimination"
against aboriginal offenders, says the federal ombudsman for inmates
- a finding that his political masters in the Conservative government
refuse to accept... ...[
more]
Canadian Press, Sunday, October 15, 2006
Health & Medical Treatment
No recent news for Canada in this category.
Prison Classification, Placement, & Release
-
Mandatory minimum sentencing laws in Canada are counterproductive
Even as Americans declare mandatory minimum sentencing the new Jim Crow laws, Ottawa continues to defend the practice of tying a judge’s hands....[
more]
Postmedia News, Thursday, August 29, 2013
-
Mr. Harper's drug stance falls behind
If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America's drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and ......[
more]
Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Prison Conditions & Corruption
- Federal prisons more crowded, violent under Tories, ombudsman says
Canada’s ombudsman for federal inmates says prisons have become more crowded, violent and worse at rehabilitation under the Conservative government, despite a budget increase of 40 per cent in the past five years....[
more]
Globe and Mail, Monday, November 25, 2013
- Federal prisons discriminate against aboriginals, says ombudsman
The Canadian prison system is practising "systemic discrimination"
against aboriginal offenders, says the federal ombudsman for inmates
- a finding that his political masters in the Conservative government
refuse to accept... ...[
more]
Canadian Press, Sunday, October 15, 2006
Prison Life & Culture
- Fortune and Men's Eyes packs powerful punch The play about men in prison broke barriers when it originally opened off-Broadway in 1967, and still can shock.
When Canadian John Herbert’s searing prison drama, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, first opened off-Broadway in 1967, the Star’s Nathan Cohen praised it for asking “deeply disturbing questions about long-established personal and social assumptions,” while the Globe and Mail’s Herbert Whittaker condemned it for practising “the art of washing our dirty linen in the neighbour’s yard.”...[
more]
Toronto Star, Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Banning ‘sexually explicit’ materials in prisons virtually impossible, government records suggest
Stopping federal inmates from watching skin flicks in prison has proven to be a bit of a challenge for the Conservative government, newly released records suggest....[
more]
Postmedia News, Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Federal inmates face pay reduction \ CORRECTIONS CANADA
TORONTO -- Inmates in the federal prison system will take a 30% pay cut, starting next April. The federal government plans to claw back wages of inmates in work programs and earn up to $6.90 a day in an effort to recoup some of the costs ......[
more]
Stratford Beacon Herald, Monday, August 12, 2013
- 50% Canadians believe prison life "too cushy," 33% believe it's "just right"
When asked on their attitudes about prison life in Canadian prisons, respondents across the country were mostly approving......[
more]
Insideprison.com, Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
No recent news for Canada in this category.
Suicides in Prison
No recent news for Canada in this category.
Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News
No recent news for Canada in this category.