Long-serving inmate with history of prison hostage-takings sentenced in Nova Scotia

A 43-year-old convicted murderer incarcerated since a teen has been handed an additional 12 months behind bars for confining ...

Should one of Canada’s longest-serving female inmates be granted ‘mercy’?

Behind bars for murder since she was 15 years old, Serena Tobaccojuice has amassed a record of prison hostage-takings. A ...
Opinion

CAEFS Response to the 2024-2025 Office of the Correctional Investigator Annual Report

Despite decades of recommendations, the OCI report highlights that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has failed to implement necessary structural changes, and the Department of Public Safety ...

Shawn Lamb gets statutory release after prison term for killing 2 women in 2012

A man who's been in prison since he admitted to killing two women in Winnipeg has been granted statutory release.
The Hill

Women in prisons have been left behind in criminal justice reform

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...
Mother Jones

Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...