The office of Canada’s Information Commissioner has found the Correctional Service of Canada negligent for not responding to an access to information request from CBC News for more than three years and taking another nine months to provide the documents in question.
Data released to CBC News suggests federal inmates are being held in solitary confinement at a higher rate in Atlantic Canada than anywhere else in the country.
Correctional Service Canada spent more than $15,000 to send convicted sex offender Donnie Snook to his father's funeral in St. John's, N.L., according to records obtained under federal access to information.
Penitentiary Museum; Portsmouth Village; Kingston, Ontario.
The multinational catering company just hired by the Saskatchewan government to provide meals at eight provincial correctional centres has been the subject of serious complaints about food quality elsewhere in the country. But the provincial government is standing by its decision to hire Compass Group Canada.
A former Surrey student teacher who sexually abused one of his students has been granted statutory release from prison after serving two-thirds of his sentence. However, according to a recent Parole Board of Canada decision, Michael Edward Herrera is being reviewed for deportation to the U.S. Herrera, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and was sentenced in April 2013 to 26 months in prison. At sentencing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams called Herrera’s conduct “odious” and “distressing.” In April 2010, Herrera was a University of B.C. student on a teaching practicum at Surrey’s Queen Elizabeth Secondary School. During his time at the school, he targeted a vulnerable 15-year-old girl, sending her sexually explicit emails and instant messages that were described as grooming and manipulative. He touched the girl’s genitals and breasts at the school and then invited her to his home for what turned out to be a violent sexual encounter. The victim was left with 29 documented injuries. (more...) Former student teacher who sexually assaulted teen getting out of jail, but faces deportation to U.S.
Corrections Canada commissioner Don Head admits his agency still relies too heavily on segregation as a means of dealing with inmates who harm themselves.
Four females who work or have worked as prison guards at the maximum-security Edmonton Institution have launched a $43.4-million lawsuit against the Correctional Service of Canada and the Union of Canadian Correctional officers, alleging waterboarding, sex assault and sexual harassment.
On the heels of a damning report by Canada's prison watchdog on how Correctional Service Canada deals with the families of inmates, an Ottawa man says he didn't learn of his brother's death in an Alberta prison until after he was cremated.
Correctional Service Canada is being praised for transparency, but at the same time is under fire for producing a virtual tour of federal prisons that gives a "sanitized" view and glosses over overcrowded conditions and a lack of prison programming.
A dog that devoted his life to public service has been shunned in his time of need, and many say it is a disgrace. Doc, a chocolate lab that has worked as a gun and drug sniffer for Corrections Canada for most of his life was injured on the job and needed knee surgery to repair damaged ligaments. When Corrections Canada refused to foot the bill for his treatment, Doc was taken in by a rescue group who took it upon themselves to look after him.
For the first time, more than a quarter of inmates in Canada's federal prisons are aboriginal people. The number continues to grow each year.
