Correctional Services

• Ontario needs to bring all parties together to address issues at EMDC: OPSEU head

  While concern is longstanding, tensions appear to have escalated in recent months amid a dispute over a memorial outside the jail and a recent rally following another inmate death.

  Politics

  Jul 29, 2021
  
• Investigation launched after EMDC inmate dies in hospital

  London police say a man was transported to hospital from Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) on Sunday and died Monday evening.

  Canada

  Mar 24, 2021
  
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• Prison justice advocacy group calls for protection against COVID-19 in N.S. jails

  The East Coast Prison Justice Society said the province needs to do a better job protecting the human rights of prisoners and reduce risks of COVID-19 in jails.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2021
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• Advocates laud Nova Scotia’s decision to ban prison practice known as ‘dry celling’

  The decision to eliminate the controversial practice comes two months after a New Brunswick woman challenged 'dry celling' in a Nova Scotia court.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2021
• Corrections conducts internal review after inmate assaulted at Halifax-area jail

  Halifax police said they responded to the jail on Gloria McCluskey Avenue in Dartmouth around 8 p.m. Monday.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2019
• Hundreds of inmates go on hunger strike at Edmonton Remand Centre

  Just days after a lockdown at the Edmonton Remand Centre was lifted, about 200 prisoners started to refuse their meals.

  Crime

  Jul 24, 2018
• Ontario ombudsman reports increase in complaints about correctional services

  In his annual report, Paul Dube says he received 5,010 complaints about correctional facilities in 2017-18 compared with 3,998 in the previous fiscal year.

  Politics

  Jun 27, 2018
• Stats Canada: Indigenous youth overrepresented in Saskatchewan prisons

  In 2006, 70 per cent of the male minors in correctional services in Saskatchewan were Indigenous. By 2015 - 16 it had jumped to 92 per cent; women are higher.

  Canada

  Jun 25, 2018
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• Ontario corrections minister unaware of concerns that home visits, curfew checks rarely done by probation officers

  Global News sat down with Ontario's minister of community safety and corrections to bring her the findings of our investigation into Ontario's probation system.

  Investigations

  May 11, 2017
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• Halifax’s 12th homicide victim of 2016 tried to change life before death

  The 22-year-old victim of Halifax's 12th homicide this year was trying to change his life before he was fatally shot Monday night.

  Crime

  Nov 25, 2016