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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

ONTARIO'S CORRECTIONAL SERVICES



Today's Waterloo Region Record carries the following story titled "Adviser recommends overhauling Ontario's jails". Howard Sapers is a well known and respected expert on correctional services, jails and inmates. His report advises that 2/3 of people incarcerated in Ontario are on remand. This means that they have been charged with an offence but not convicted. Therefore 2/3 of our prisoners have not had their day in court and therefore are presumed innocent. It seems ridiculous that they are held in facilities with inmates with long term criminal records and sentences.

Ontario it turns out is one of the only provinces in Canada which does not have a law curbing strip searches in jail. In fact government policy in Ontario is to have strip searches on a bi-weekly basis for all inmates and daily strip searches for inmates in segregation. To say that is punitive, bizarre and unneccessary when compared to all other jurisdictions in Canada is an understatement.

Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde has indicated that the Ontario government will act upon Mr. Saper's report and will introduce new corrections legislation this fall. How many decades behind the times is that?
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  1. Watch dogOctober 11, 2017 at 6:41 AM

    Broken isn't the word inmates don't get rehabilitation services witch is the point of jail to rehabilitate inmates so don't reofend but we have to look back at kitchener ladies jail were a female inmate killed herself while guards watched n listened n ignored her cries n the gaurgs should been charged involuntary manslaughter possibly even the Worden of jail should had the same charge .But instead the warden was promoted n transfered to graven Hurst Penn up north were a male inmate cried in pain begged for help n sadly same thing his cries went ignored while inmates had to hear another one of God's children die without any concern this is how we improve our system send her from in charge of female jail to men's jail up north to be in charge of men jail Wow a promotion n not demoted or charged and now we have another death under her supervision st graven hurts maybe they need to review alot past deaths in jails be for they think about promoting someone who doest care N thinks shese above the law n can cover deaths up under her supervision that's involuntary manslaughter x 2 how many more must die before there held responsable

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  2. Watch dogOctober 11, 2017 at 6:43 AM

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