April 8, 2020 - Ontario is hunkering down on its battle against COVID-19 by implementing new measures this week. The province announced on Tuesday that it will release nearly 2,000 Ontario inmates from its prisons to slow the spread of the virus. The move is being made in attempts to stop the spread of the virus through local prisons.…Read More
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April 7, 2020 - Slow release of low-risk offenders, or those near the end of their sentence, aims to help curb COVID-19 spread
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March 17, 2020 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet urged Canadians last week to come together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: Avoid mass gatherings, practise social distancing, self-isolate if necessary.…Read More
February 10, 2020 - Nineteen months after his release from prison, the man with the most famous tattoo in Canadian jurisprudence is working for the John Howard Society helping other former inmates reintegrate into the community.…Read More
January 20, 2020 - Ontario’s most vulnerable youths are being “retraumatized” by child protection and justice systems that set them up to fail and leave them languishing for months in pretrial detention, according to researchers who tracked kids in the care of foster parents and group homes.
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December 17, 2019 - SUDBURY — The group formerly known as Sudbury Youth Rocks has a new name.…Read More
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November 7, 2019 - Navigating the confusing, often hostile jail system is another heartache, Sudbury woman says…Read More