Government action to curb solitary confinement long overdue
Only a legislated framework will ensure that everyone’s Charter rights are respected once the light cast by the Adam Capay case on this abusive practice dims.
Catherine Latimer
Catherine Latimer is a Broadbent Fellow and is the executive director of the John Howard Society.
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Time to move beyond “tough-on-crime” rhetoric
A rational justice system and a program of prison reform based on evidence and grounded in humane principles would be more sensible than having to hope that law suits will correct the present system’s deficiencies.
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The decline of evidence-based law making
If the Justice Department’s own criminal law policy section has been so diminished that it can only achieve the loyal execution of established policy but lacks the resources to carefully and intelligently develop new policy, then it is only doing half its job.
