REPORTS
News Release: Report calls for significant shift of funding from Correctional Service Canada to Indigenous governments and organizations
Today, Prisoners’ Legal Services released Decarceration through Self-determination: Ending the mass incarceration of Indigenous people in Canada. The report calls on Canada to shift $1 billion each year from the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to Indigenous...
Solitary by another name
The ongoing use of isolation in Canada’s federal prisons
Damage/Control: Use of force and the cycle of violence and trauma in BC’s federal and provincial prisons
use of force report online
Solitary – A Case for Abolition
WCPJS/PLS has released a report on the use of solitary confinement in BC and Canada. Solitary: A Case for Abolition is a detailed prescription for the best practices in abolishing solitary confinement in Canada. This project is funded by the Law Foundation of...
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