A home inspectors association has filed a complaint against a colleague they say is gaming the system by playing both sides of real estate transactions.

"We absolutely do not endorse it and especially did not endorse invoking Ashley's name to put forward this new bill. Absolutely not," Ward said.

At least five New Brunswick children whose families were known to protective workers have died, but little is known about their deaths.

Alabama's parole board is refusing to release a woman convicted of putting her 14-month-old daughter into a hot oven in 2002.

Correctional Service Canada says a woman serving a sentence for first-degree murder has died in an Ontario prison.

The Ministry of Justice is reviewing a controversial tool used in Saskatchewan jails called administrative segregation, also known federally as solitary confinement.

It’s time to stop locking young people in solitary confinement for days at a time, says Ontario’s Advocate for Children and Youth.

Camille Strickland-Murphy's suicide at the Nova Institute for Women followed the death of another woman, in April, who was serving time at the same prison.

A Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.

The country’s top prison official says Canada is working on a “new model” for solitary confinement, in the wake of criticisms over the government’s handling of mentally ill inmates such as Ashley Smith.