April 14, 2016 - OHSWEKEN — Representatives from a not-for-profit organization based in Hamilton are asking Six Nations Elected Council if their Restorative Justice and Conflict Mediation Program (RJCMP) could be implemented into schools and social circles in the community.…Read More
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March 31, 2016 - City councillors learned more Tuesday night about a free mediation service that helps resolve neighbour disputes.…Read More
March 29, 2016 - A program that helps at-risk youth complete high school has launched in Picton, after experiencing success in Belleville and Quinte West.…Read More
March 23, 2016 - Coun. Jan Harder says that Time for Change, a gang exit strategy developed by police, Crime Prevention Ottawa and the John Howard Society, would be a perfect fit for the city’s Building Better Revitalized Neighbourhoods program.…Read More
March 23, 2016 - Wolfgang Guembel, a business owner in Port Dalhousie, had his beach concession stand trashed by a group of youths last summer. He met one of them in January, in a restorative justice program of the Niagara Youth Criminal Justice Committee…Read More
March 22, 2016 - Jailing the accused until their guilt or innocence has been decided at trial is a habit that borders on an addiction…Read More
March 17, 2016 - An Ottawa justice of the peace took the unusual step Tuesday of decrying – publicly, in an opinion piece for the National Post –what she sees as dysfunction in the bail system, suggesting there’s a deep lack of respect for the rule of law.…Read More
March 17, 2016 - The minister responsible for Ontario’s jails, including the often overcrowded Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, says work needs to be done to reduce the number of people sitting in jail while awaiting trial.…Read More