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- Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system.
- Call for UK judicial impartiality after Julian Assange’s arrest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Following WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by the British police today, Reporters Without Borders urge respect for his defence rights despite the extreme tension surrounding this case.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian 'Pardons' No More
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As a result of Bill C-10, the changes to the Criminal Records Act (CRA) have now come into effect. Specifically, the Pardon's program name, eligibility requirements and waiting periods, have been changed.
- The Capital Punishment Debate
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- Michael C. Chettleburgh
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Converse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- A Grand Juror Speaks
The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lewis-Kraus recounts his inside story as a member of a grand jury in New York.
- Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Preventing Kids From Becoming Cons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Faced with increasing public anxiety about youth crime, two of North America's leading crime prevention champions have partnered to produce a groundbreaking conference where world renowned experts will discuss how we can prevent today's high risk
- Rejected for jury duty
Resource Type: Article
Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
- Resisting State Violence
Justice Or Just Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
- Science for Peace calls on the Canadian justice system to nullify the extradition order for Hassan Diab
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Science for Peace is deeply concerned about the egregious violations of Dr. Hassan Diab?s rights under the Canadian and French justice systems.
- Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
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