August 14, 2018 - A group of people will be gathering outside the Sudbury Jail today to remember inmates who have died in prison. We’ll learn how Prisoners’ Justice Day came to be, and why it continues to be important more than four decades later. We heard from John Rimore is the executive director of the John Howard Society of Sudbury.…Read More
JHSO in the News
August 14, 2018 - Annual event honours inmates who have died violent or unnatural deaths…Read More
August 14, 2018 - People need to remember many prisoners are eventually released into the community, says John Howard society director…Read More
August 14, 2018 - Larry Nault first entered prison in June of 1970, beginning with a four-year sentence that he built into a 40-year term, finishing in 2010.…Read More
August 3, 2018 - YARD will run with two youth workers until March, when it hopes to secure more funding…Read More
August 3, 2018 - The public is invited to join these two organizations on Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 102 Maple Avenue…Read More
July 9, 2018 - In sentencing reports for gang and gun violence cases in Toronto – and there are hundreds to comb through over the past decade – familiar patterns stand out among the offenders’ backstories. Young. Often men. Often black. Often raised in poverty. An early exposure to violence and drugs. Systemic barriers and struggles in school.…Read More
June 28, 2018 - ‘We can’t do this alone,’ says police board chair
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