Last summer, there was a string of hunger strikes at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) that included demands for changes to inadequate complaints procedures at the jail. The lack of accountability for human rights violations […]
Sign the letter here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11RFBEEDbULu6jemAdL-iNocg4tA2Q186P5DpcB5S2N0/viewform?edit_requested=true Read it below: Attn: Sylvia Jones, Ministry of the Solicitor General (SOLGEN) Christine Elliott, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Linda Ogilve, Manager of Corporate Healthcare, SOLGEN Beth Dunford, Manager, […]
The new report was produced by the Prison Pandemic Partnership, which brings the Centre for Access to Information and Justice (CAIJ), the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP), and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) […]
The 2021 Ontario Prisoners’ Resource Guide is an updated comprehensive list of all the available services and supports for people exiting prison in Ontario. It is organized by city and includes things like Counselling, Legal […]
CPEP recently organized and conducted the Canvassing to #DefundOPS Campaign. We volunteered 120 hours and knocked on more than 600 doors across Ottawa. We were greeted by many residents in wards 7 Bay (@tm_kavanagh), 11 […]
Today CPEP is publishing a new self-care handout for people to download, print, and share on the internet. Being an activist/organizer is very hard and it’s important to understand what burnout is and how to […]
Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Linked to Canadian Carceral Insitutions as of April 17th, 2020 at 12:30 pm est. Given the urgent need to prevent the further transmission of COVID-19 amongst people who are caged and working […]
Government of Ontario needs to take additional steps to reduce the use and harms of imprisonment at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre during the COVID-19 crisis 6 April 2020 (Ottawa / Algonquin Territory) – Over the […]
A year after its launch, the Jail Accountability & Information Line continues to work with prisoners to address human rights issues and re-entry barriers at the Innes Road jail, and releases its third quarterly report […]
Today the Jail Accountablility & Infomation Line (JAIL) has released a new report which documents the problems with the Bell Canada administered provincial prison phone system that does not allow calls to cellphones and serves […]
This advocacy report provides an overview of the issues discussed during calls from Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre prisoners and their loved ones to the Jail Accountability & Information Line (JAIL) during our second quarter (10 March […]
This quarterly advocacy report provides an overview of the issues discussed during 659 calls from Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre prisoners and their loved to the JAIL / Jail Accountability & Information Line during the first three […]
The first monthly report on the JAIL Hotline is available to be read, downloaded, and printed on our website. The report details the alarming number, and content of calls that the JAIL Hotline received in […]
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