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New numbers show Alberta is the lowest in Canada on per capita spending on inmates
New data shows Alberta spends the lowest amount of money per inmate in Canada – a number the province says is value for money but critics label shortsighted and worrisome.The Edmonton Remand Centre is shown on Saturday, April 27, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ben Lemphers
world
Oklahoma executes a man for a 1992 killing despite board recommending his life be spared
FILE - Augustina Sanders hugs Kim Ludwig, a paralegal in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Oklahoma City, after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Sanders' brother, Emmanuel Littlejohn, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)
opinion
Solitary confinement doesn’t work
Lisa Moore
canada
Judge finds Manitoba jail guard not guilty in death of inmate
The flag of Manitoba flies on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 in Ottawa. A Manitoba judge is expected to deliver his verdict today in the case of a senior corrections officer charged in the death of a First Nations inmate. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</p>
opinion
We need an inconvenient review of our solitary confinement legislation
Anthony Doob, Jane Sprott and Catherine Latimer
opinion
The revolution in online learning has skipped over our prisons – and that helps nobody
Lisa Kerr
british columbia
Inmate who escaped from federal facility in Laval, Que., now back in custody
Correctional Service Canada says an inmate who escaped from a federal facility in Laval, Que., last night is now back in custody. Patches are seen on the arm and shoulder of a corrections officer at an institution in Abbotsford, B.C., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
british columbia
Former correctional officer charged after B.C. smuggling investigation
The RCMP logo is seen outside the force's 'E' division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on March 16, 2023. A former correctional officer is facing nine charges including obstruction of justice as part of a criminal organization and accepting a bribe, after a smuggling investigation in British Columbia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
canada
Man who threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman, killing her, has day parole revoked
Brayden Bushby, left, departs the courthouse with his mother after his sentencing hearing after being found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Barbara Kentner, in Thunder Bay, Ont., Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Bushby will appear in Thunder Bay, Ont., court, where Justice Helen Piece is set to deliver her sentencing decision. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Jackson
film review
Colman Domingo soars beyond walls real and metaphorical in fantastic prison drama Sing Sing
Colman Domingo Sing Sing movie film still
canada
Father sues Newfoundland and Labrador government for death of son in provincial jail
Her Majesty's Penitentiary is pictured in St. John's, N.L., overlooking Quidi Vidi Lake on June 9, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
world
The deadly mix of tuberculosis and intense heat in the Philippines’s overcrowded jails
Inmates at Quezon City Jail undergo processing by medical staff. Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, including HIV, are a major problem in often overcrowded jails in the Philippines.
world
Program offers Washington prison inmates a chance to fight fires – and find work when released
The crew members of Arcadia 20, a group of partially-incarcerated firefighters based in Washington state, march along a forest road during fire mop up activities on deployment at the Oregon fire near Deer Park, Washington, U.S., August 30, 2023. While states across the American West have inmate firefighting crews, Washington's ARC 20 program is the only one of its kind in the U.S., recruiting incarcerated individuals from full confinement into a reentry center where they continue to build skills in firefighting and prepare for life after release.
british columbia
Man convicted of murder 20 years ago dies in B.C. prison
Correctional Service Canada says an unnamed inmate has been injured in what it's calling a major assault at the Port-Cartier Institution located on Quebec's north shore. Patches are seen on the arm and shoulder of a corrections officer in the segregation unit at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women during a media tour, in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck