Yet as of last week, Indigenous peoples made up a full 32.7 per cent of the prison population even though they accounted for just five per cent of the country’s overall population. And for the first ...

In what everyone--from bureaucrats at Corrections Canada to guards and inmates and their families--in the prison system feared, COVID-19 is now in the door. A guard at one of the largest prisons ...

Read more.Do you think this is money well spent? Does the Canadian prison system need to be expanded? (This survey is not scientific. It is based on readers' votes.) ...

Our prison system is meant for rehabilitation, not punishing Canada’s most vulnerable families. The damaging effects of separation can be permanent, Martin says.

The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA – An internal Justice Department report indicates Canadians have little confidence in the courts and the prison system.

A Canadian citizen will spend more than seven years in federal prison for smuggling guns from Montana into Lethbridge, Alberta. Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull in Billings sentenced ...

He pleaded guilty to war crimes charges three years ago in exchange for an eight-year prison sentence. Khadr, a native of Toronto, was transferred to the Canadian prison system last year.

In its response, the CSC denied that the term solitary confinement is "accurate or applicable" within the Canadian prison system. After denying the practice exists, it then refused to impose ...