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August 2, 2016 - It’s easy to assume everyone has access to the Internet in a first-world country like Canada, but in reality 17 per cent of Canadian households don’t have internet at home – including 58 per cent of households with incomes of $30 000 or less.…Read More

July 26, 2016 - It happened quickly. An undercover officer acting as a john parked and exited an unmarked police car in a convenience store parking lot. Seconds later, three other officers swarmed the sex worker and snapped handcuffs on her.…Read More

July 18, 2016 - TORONTO — Inmates of Ontario correctional facilities are 12 times more likely than the general public to die of a drug overdose within the first year following their release from incarceration, say researchers, who believe concrete interventions are needed to reduce these preventable deaths.…Read More

June 22, 2016 - The vast majority of offenders who seek their release from jail are granted bail, according to statistics from Ontario’s courts, but critics of the province’s bail system say what’s concerning is the number of people who don’t even bother asking for their release in the first place.    …Read More

June 10, 2016 - A civilized society is often judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, and by that measure the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre has failed spectacularly.…Read More

June 7, 2016 - Transferring health care responsibilities for inmates from one provincial ministry to another may not turn out to be the panacea the authors of a recent report aimed at fixing the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre envisioned, prisoner advocates say.…Read More

May 31, 2016 - ‘The system isn’t helping — it’s putting more people inside, keeping them there’…Read More

May 31, 2016 - Majority of inmates in province’s jails awaiting trial…Read More