The government introduced legislation, tacked on to the Budget Measures Act, that makes correctional officers an essential service and gives them their own bargaining unit ...
Category: Law and Safety
Howard Sapers leaving federal post to head up Ontario’s segregation review
The Correctional Investigator of Canada will step down and turn his sights on segregation in Ontario. ...
Majority of prison complaints are about health care, provincial watchdog reports
Adam Capay's case is also raising alarm bells for the Ontario Ombudsman, who recently deployed his staff to visit the 24-year-old indigenous inmate who has become the poster child for the problems swirling the use of seg ...
Ombudsman wants to probe police oversight agencies
Justice Michael Tulloch is leading the government's review of police oversight and will make final recommendations by March 31, 2017. ...
Heard: Adam Capay to stay in new cell, Orazietti says
But the Community Safety Minister could not provide details on what mental health supports the 23-year-old inmate will have access to. ...
The case for a made-in-Ontario prison watchdog
Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada, says the need for tailored oversight in prisons "starts with some fairly basic principles of accountability and transparency, and also of course, recognizing, ultim ...
On Adam Capay, New Democrats demand Orazietti ‘make that right’
A 23-year-old indigenous man has been kept in solitary confinement under artificial light in a Thunder Bay jail for four years. Capay is legally innocent as he has faced a Charter-violating delay in a murder trial. ...
Liberals to set spring election, lower voter registration age
Attorney General Yasir Naqvi reiterates Liberals' plan to move the election date up to June from October among a handful of other measures to "modernize" elections. ...
OHRC data reveal ‘alarming’ overuse of segregation in jails as province launches external review
The Human Rights Commissioner is calling for tougher rules for all types of segregation and that it never be used for inmates with a mental health concern. ...
Heard: Attorney General explores counselling support for jurors
In Ontario's courts, unless it's been ordered by a judge, a juror must pay out of her own pocket for counselling. ...
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