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Wolastoqiyik And Mi’Kmaq Grandmothers - Land/Water Defenders Sharing And Learning Circle: Generating Knowledge For Action, Sherry Pictou, Janet Conway, Angela Day
Wolastoqiyik And Mi’Kmaq Grandmothers - Land/Water Defenders Sharing And Learning Circle: Generating Knowledge For Action, Sherry Pictou, Janet Conway, Angela Day
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This report is a summary of the Grandmothers/Defenders’ stories and are interwoven with corresponding news articles, press releases, and other public documents. This is followed by an overview of some of the critical common issues and importantly, strategies for moving forward proposed by the Grandmothers/Defenders.
The Grandmother’s Report is a collection of stories told by Wolastoqiyik Grandmother/Defenders against the Sisson Mine in New Brunswick and Mi’kmaq Grandmothers against the Alton Gas project in Nova Scotia at the event, Indigenous Grandmothers Sharing and Learning Circle: Generating Knowledge for Action, held at the Tatamagouche Centre in Nova Scotia, January 26 to 27, …
Do Independent External Decision Makers Ensure That “An Inmate’S Confinement In A Structured Intervention Unit Is To End As Soon As Possible”? [Corrections And Conditional Release Act, Section 33], Jane B. Sprott, Anthony N. Doob, Adelina Iftene
Do Independent External Decision Makers Ensure That “An Inmate’S Confinement In A Structured Intervention Unit Is To End As Soon As Possible”? [Corrections And Conditional Release Act, Section 33], Jane B. Sprott, Anthony N. Doob, Adelina Iftene
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The Government of Canada established Correctional Service Canada’s (CSC) Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) to be a substitute for “Administrative Segregation” as it officially was known, or Solitary Confinement as it is more commonly known. The goals – explicit in the legislation governing federal penitentiaries (the Corrections and Conditional Release Act) – included provisions that SIUs were to be used as little as possible and that prisoners would be transferred from them as soon as possible.
This report examines some aspects of the operation of the IEDMs – the only SIU oversight mechanism that is currently active – using administrative data …