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Pleading guilty when innocent: A truth for too many Indigenous people

Every day innocent people – a disproportionate number of them First Nations, Inuit and Métis people – plead guilty to crimes they did not commit (and sometimes crimes

A tough-on-drugs stance in the Canadian prison system harms prisoners

A new pilot program in two Canadian prisons is a sign that our prisons can change. The department responsible for our federal prison system, Correctional Service

He died after guards beat and pepper-sprayed him, according to video. The province refuses to release the footage, citing labour relations

Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is keeping secret the video detailing the last moments of a man who died in solitary confinement

Needle exchanges coming to 2 Canadian prisons

Inmates at two federal prisons who use injection drugs will have access to clean syringes beginning in June, with the Correctional Service of Canada planning to

If we truly want to rehabilitate incarcerated youth, we must stop putting them in solitary confinement

A couple of weeks ago, a jury looking into the suicide of Yousef Mohamed Hussein, an inmate who took his own life in segregation in an Ottawa detention centre back

Canada needs to clear the air – and wipe away criminal records for marijuana

Legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada is only a few months away, but it's going to take a lot longer than that to clean up the mess left behind from almost

There’s nothing ‘illegal’ about asylum seekers

Amid a global refugee crisis, the misuse of the term ‘illegal’ carries a real cost. We are concerned about a recent spike in the use of the term “illegal” to

We must end discrimination in jury selection

The peremptory challenge − the unfettered ability of lawyers to exclude a limited number of otherwise qualified jurors from serving − has come under intense scrutiny

'A human rights issue': Lack of treatment for drug users means deaths behind bars

Michelle McPherson's son Curtis McGowan was rushed to the Guelph, Ont., hospital by paramedics after overdosing, where he was revived with the opioid-reversal drug