A Trenton, Ontario woman jailed for fraud in Mexico, and who became a celebrity convict, whisked back to Canada on a private jet at a cost to taxpayers of $83,000, is in trouble with parole authorities, a National Parole Board document obtained by Cancrime reveals. The board has slapped a slew of stricter conditions on Brenda Martin (above) after “recurring incidents of excessive alcohol consumption.” Read the complete decision after the jump.
The man accused of plowing a car into a minivan at 200 kilometres per hour in Toronto, killing three people, dodged jail time two years ago in Kingston when he was convicted of rigging a Scotiabank ATM with devices that steal personal data and PIN numbers from customers.
Jailed swindler Conrad Black once said prison would be “quite endurable,” but after a little more than a year behind bars for fraud and obstruction of justice, he wants out, while he appeals his conviction.
A veteran Ontario Provincial Police officer charged today in a $15-million fraud against Canadian rail and aircraft maker Bombardier was at a mock trial at a Toronto high school last month, where a novel justice program helps instill in 15- and 16-year-old students a “sense of civic mindedness and active citizenship.”
Most media reports ignored some controversy in the Brenda Martin parole case. She’s the Trenton, Ont., woman who spent two years in a Mexican prison.
Video of the Shafia family, who have since been convicted of murdering four family members, as they arrived in court in October 2010, when their case was at the pre-trial motion stage. (click image above to play video)
Managers at medium-security Joyceville penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, bowed to a long list of inmate demands, including giving back control of spaces in the volatile prison where a race riot last year left one inmate near death (click image above to read the internal memo obtained by Cancrime). Management aceded to the demands of the inmates after they staged a one-week strike in which convicts refused to report to their prison jobs.
»Click here to read full post about last year's riot at Joyceville
»Click here to read about Josh Erdodi, the inmate who was savagely beaten during the riot
