August 11, 2016 - Rick Sauve was convicted of first degree murder in 1979 and he has been working to increase awareness and inspire change in jails and prisons…Read More
JHSO in the News
August 9, 2016 - This won’t be the first time you’ll hear criminality and mental health be put together in an article. It’s a narrative we often hear, but one that is often stigmatized and misunderstood. A disproportionate number of inmates do suffer from a mental illness, but often the reasons why they are incarcerated is from a lack of mental health community care in Ontario.…Read More
August 4, 2016 - NIAGARA — They certainly aren’t sexy or flashy, but nuts and bolts improvements being made at five Niagara non-profit agencies are being called important to allow the agencies to do what they do best: help some of society’s most vulnerable young people.…Read More
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.
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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