There’s a crisis in criminal justice in Canada of staggering proportions. It has nothing to do with crooks, courts, lawyers or judges. But it has the potential to metastasise into a debilitating scourge that will paralyse the system. I believe it will be the number one issue of 2009, even though it is virtually invisible and unknown to citizens.
Question: What widespread law enforcement campaign, revered by many boosters as an unmitigated, ongoing success, catches offenders a measly 0.2% of the time?
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
