Prison
Harper Government Borrowing, Increasing Taxes, to Build Prisons - Crime at 30 year low
By Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — The head of Canada's prison system says there will be "major construction initiatives" in the coming years to cope with federal legislation to imprison more offenders longer — an assertion backed by new spending estimates showing a 43 per cent increase in penitentiary capital costs next year.
Don Head, commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada, set the stage for prison expansion in a recent e-mail, obtained by Canwest News Service.
US-style mega-prisons wrong for Canada
43% increase in prison construction is wrong approach to keep communities safeJail rests on boosting prisoner total
THE CITY is banking on the federal government sending more people to jail for longer periods of time if its hope of an economy-boosting jail here is to be realized.
A city co-sponsored feasibility study lists three pieces of legislation the federal government wants passed, each one of which would result in more people headed for federal jail cells.
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Rob Nicholson, Published in MacleansLeader of the Opposition in the Senate
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Battling prison disease
Jail not sought for Manitoba pot advocate
Perception and reality differ
Chris McCormick, The Daily GleanerJustice Minister wants opposition to reinstate crime bills
By BRYN WEESE, Parliamentary Bureau Toronto SunPolice quiet on St. John's prison investigation
CBC NewsSt. John's prison guard in drug bust
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