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
JHSO in the News
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
May 25, 2016 - An unconventional partnership which aims to recycle the city’s 9,000 streetlights has been recognized with a national award from Habitat for Humanity.…Read More
May 25, 2016 - THUNDER BAY – LIVING – The John Howard Society of Thunder Bay & District is a community-based criminal justice organization that provides many different programs to individuals in need of assistance and support. They operate a Rehabilitative Residential Program with 9 units for women and 39 units for men, which 200 individuals per year access. – See more at: http://www.netnewsledger.com/2016/05/19/make-plans-howard-ball-night-masquerade-mystery/#sthash.esVh2IN4.dpuf…Read More
May 25, 2016 - Dave Lane, a former player and president of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats alumni association, has died. He was 65.
Lane was the longtime executive director of the John Howard Society of Hamilton Burlington and Area, an organization dedicated to providing services for members of the community who have come into conflict with the law or are at risk of doing so.…Read More
May 16, 2016 - Imagine a jail so devoid of humanity that guards stand idly by while a pregnant woman gives birth on the cold concrete floor of her jail cell; a jail so lawless that guards can brutalize inmates and then cover up the abuse with impunity; a jail so overcrowded inmates are forced to sleep in wet shower cells; a jail so short-sighted that people presumed innocent are warehoused without access to any rehabilitative programs; a jail so horrible the inmates are literally driven insane.…Read More
May 16, 2016 - A former prisoner who gave birth to her baby on the floor of an Ottawa segregation cell says it’s time to end long stays in segregation and make health care for inmates a priority, from providing drug addicts the methadone they need to making sure pregnant women receive the same care as someone who isn’t in custody.…Read More