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Lawyer Nabil Halabi reports that lower cells in #Saydnaya Prison, known as "red wards" or "death wards," remain sealed. The regime disabled electronic gates and ventilation systems, leaving detainees trapped in what are described as human slaughterhouses.— Maher Akraa (@maherakraa) December 8, 2024
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Disgraced former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year sentence in New York City’s Metropolitan Detention Center. He’s learning about such things as sports gambling and a drug called “deuce,” and he badly misses his teddy bear Manfred.
In this country and in this particular year of 2024, up is down, down is up and green is blue.Understand?
That is so because the justice system declares it so. The governing Liberals declare it so. Academics and activists declare it so.
But the truth of the matter is, it just isn’t so.
So, why would you stake the lives of women and young children on the premise that nothing has happened — yet?
Four years ago, I was one of many who tried to raise the alarm in the media about a Canadian crisis. I called attention to the staggering statistic that 98 percent of girls in Saskatchewan youth jails were Indigenous, and upwards of 70 percent of inmates in Manitoba jails were Indigenous.
These are unacceptable rates by any measure. At the time, 43 percent of women in federal prisons were Indigenous.
Last week we learned that Canada has crossed a terrible threshold: 50 percent of all women in federal prisons are now Indigenous, despite Indigenous women making up only five percent of Canada’s female population.
Canada’s Justice Minister is adamant that Liberal legislation will begin reversing the country’s disproportionate rate of Indigenous incarceration, but he acknowledges more needs to be done to address racial inequities in the justice system.
In an interview, Justice Minister David Lametti responded to recent criticism that the Liberal government has produced little in the way of policy response to the problem. The Globe reported earlier this month that Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent.
Biological men who identify as women are now officially allowed to transfer into women’s correctional institutions if they request to do so.
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) made the policy clear in a directive from the Commissioner on Wednesday that the transfers would take place regardless of the inmate’s anatomical sex.
A dangerous transgender serial killer, who targeted women, is now being housed in female prison after “identifying” as a woman. “Donna Perry,” born Douglas, was transferred to the Washington Correctional Center for Women under new laws that allow gender self-identification.
The federal government is not requiring imprisoned convicts and criminals to be vaccinated against COVID-19 while demanding proof of vaccination from law-abiding Canadians.
One of the political prisoners being held in jail for participating in the Capitol riot, Nathan DeGrave, sent a letter that was released on Twitter alleging horrific conditions in the D.C. jail for January 6 prisoners. DeGrave’s letter alleged “extreme medical neglect,” mental and physical abuse, “unlivable conditions,” dirty water, and starvation. His allegations resulted in a surprise inspection to back up his claims.
They’re building massive Covid quarantine camps in Australia. Prisons, but for innocent people.
But don’t think about that part. Think about all the construction jobs. And the meals are locally sourced!
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— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) August 28, 2021
U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was granted parole Friday after two of RFK’s sons spoke in favor of Sirhan Sirhan’s release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars.
The decision was a victory for the 77-year-old killer, though it does not assure his release.
The ruling by the two-person panel at Sirhan’s 16th parole hearing will be reviewed over the next 90 days by the California Parole Board’s staff. Then it will be sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant it, reverse it or modify it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded off on the U.S.’s approach to crime at a press conference in New York City Thursday.
She argued that the best way to address escalating crime rates was through better mental health care, not through more incarceration.
“It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings,” said the Congresswoman (D-NY) to a round of applause.
Can we build special mental hospitals and lock them in against their will? Because that worked before.
California is planning to release thousands of inmates in order to reduce prison capacity. According to reports on Saturday, the state is expected to increase early release credits for 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons.
The federal government’s criminal justice reform bill has generally been described as a good first step in tackling the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black people in the justice system.
But it’s also sparked the question: Why not go even further with Bill C-22?
The bill would repeal mandatory minimum penalties for all drug offences and some firearm offences, expand the use of conditional sentences such as house arrest, and urge police and prosecutors to use discretion in order to keep drug possession cases out of the justice system.
WARNING: Archived Toronto Star article.
All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enforcement prepares for potentially violent protests across the country in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday.
The lockdown at more than 120 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities took effect at 12 a.m. Saturday, according to an email to employees from the president of the union representing federal correctional officers.
“In light of current events occurring around the country, and out of an abundance of caution, the decision has been made to secure all institutions,” the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
