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  1. Court Workers on Strike
  2. Pizza and Porn in Prison
  3. Escape baffles Drumheller prison staff
  4. "Drumheller Ductman"s moved to max-security (Surprised?)
  5. barbecue held at Saskatoon's Regional Psychiatric Centre
  6. Calgary mother gets 8 years
  7. Study finds high number of preventable inmate deaths
  8. Who are the BAD GUYS in Kingston Pen??? (Story A)
  9. Privately FUNded Super Jail Profiling
  10. Guarding the guards - from the TO Star
  11. Canadians not regeristring guns
  12. Riot at Montreal Detention Centre
  13. Canada's Women's Prisons Inadequate
  14. Prison staffers protest
  15. Inmate dead, another injured as fires set in B.C. prison riot
  16. 17 yrs old. Sentencing July 17th.
  17. Corrections may ink deal on jail tattoos
  18. Prison condom order altered
  19. Stun guns coming to jail
  20. After years in prison Driskell free on bail
  21. 1975 BC Pen Hostage Crisis
  22. Taser kills another person
  23. Mountie death sentencing
  24. Article-Milgaard inquiry to begin
  25. Homicide in Canadian and American Cities
  26. NEWS ARTICLE-Police declare war against hooking
  27. News article- Witnesses to Toronto bus shooting fail to come forward
  28. A sad loss in canadian history - Pierre Berton
  29. News-Baby stable but still unclaimed
  30. NEWS- FUTURE FOR NHL TEAMS OILERS & FLAMES
  31. NEWS- CSC- National Memorial Service Offers Chance to Honour Fallen Colleague
  32. NEWS-Correctional Service Of Canada Responds
  33. NEWS-CSC-Addictions and the Offender Population
  34. Article-Stephen Truscott wants name cleared of murder conviction
  35. Article- Twin paternity puzzle could make history in Canada
  36. Prison News and Events - Canada - Welcome!
  37. Robert Baltovich to get new trial
  38. Jail time for 'deadbeat' parents may double
  39. NEWS-Manitoba law takes aim at spoils of crime
  40. 15th Anniversary Montreal Massacre
  41. Article: Deserter Seeks Asylum In Canada
  42. Mountie convicted of killing prisoner gets house arrest
  43. Article:Karla Homolka still a danger to society-Parole Board review
  44. Judge snoozes during sentencing hearing
  45. Article:Penetanguishene-No room left for psychiatric treatment
  46. Canadian victims of tsunami-families to collect forensic evidence
  47. Article: U.S. fugitive loses appeal for bail
  48. Article: Up to 20 inmates in brawl - Remand Centre put in lockdown
  49. Article: Prison health care shocker
  50. Article:Inquiry into 16 yr. old's death at courthouse
  51. Article: Prison officials in Nfld. to reassess lockdown at penitentiary
  52. Article: Prisons for profit
  53. Article:Wrongful convictions targeted in report
  54. Article:Appeal court lets innocent man sue lawyer
  55. Article- Prison Tatto Parlours
  56. Article-Inmates to battle butt ban
  57. Article-Federal prisons to butt out
  58. Article-Canadian Prisoners Donate to Tsunami Aid Efforts
  59. Article- prison medical treatment
  60. NEWS- Gangs all there
  61. NEWS-Correctional service promises changes in womens jails
  62. NEWS- New rules for female killers?
  63. NEWS- Stony ranks high in weapons haul
  64. NEWS-Walker set to come home
  65. NEWS- Prefer women's prison over alternative
  66. Article:Prisons overloaded with mentally ill
  67. Article: Award-winning bank robber found not guilty
  68. Article: Another 'miscarriage of justice'
  69. Article:Young man in Taber, Alta., school shooting moving to Ont. half-way house
  70. Article:Man at centre of 'no means no' sex assault case faces new trial
  71. Article:Two accused Air India bombers acquitted of Canada's worst mass murder
  72. Woman falsely accused child sex abuse takes case to Supreme Court
  73. Article:Soldiers fearful after woman charged with aggravated assault in HIV case
  74. Article-Pardons: Wiping the slate clean
  75. Article:Pathologist lost crucial evidence in murder case
  76. Article:Police calling for changes at National Parole Board
  77. Article:Prison plan for dangerous women not working on killer who prompted policy
  78. ARTICLE- Deal with the devil' stands
  79. Article-Ontario won't charge Homolka in sister's death
  80. Article- Ontario calls for restrictions on Homolka after release
  81. Article-Parole Board Keeps Karla behind bars
  82. Article-Karla Homolka denied statutory release
  83. Article-Toronto police cancel Amber Alert for baby
  84. Article-Inmates use rights to disrupt jails
  85. Cops Gag Blogger & seize 'puter ~ Canadian CENSORSHIP?!
  86. Tattoo parlour for prison
  87. Canada takes bold step on marijuana
  88. Karla Homolka in Montreal?
  89. Afghani pop star killed on street after Vancouver concert
  90. Drunk driver who killed twice gets 15 years
  91. Woman gang raped 25 years ago sues crime compensation board for $11 million
  92. Article:She's a master manipulator without remorse, inmates say
  93. Criminal prosecutions questioned following pathologist's work
  94. NYTimes:In Blow to Canada's Health System, Quebec Law Is Voided
  95. Karla Homolka hopes to apply for pardon one day
  96. Officials have plan to whisk Homolka safely from prison upon her release
  97. Manitoba must take action to avert major meth problem: RCMP
  98. Drug bust snares 49 in Chatham ~ London Free Press
  99. Homolka faces few options when she emerges from prison
  100. Article:A visit to hell in Bernardo Wing
  101. Strangers volunteer to help freed Homolka
  102. Prison worker unharmed after hostage incident at federal institution in B.C.
  103. Bernardo denied bid to go public about Homolka
  104. Homolka's mom to help her after leaving prison
  105. Homolka wants judge to order a media ban
  106. Homolka in fear for her life ~~ London Free Press
  107. Top court search-warrant ruling upholds press freedom, public right to know
  108. Homolka will have to face public, media without any restrictions
  109. Prison guards stage protest outside prison as Homolka gets ready for release
  110. Homolka leaves prison after 12 years
  111. Child killer wants media gagged
  112. Homolka gives TV interview after release
  113. Guardian:Canadian child killer freed from jail amid protests
  114. Homolka will need circle of friends
  115. Woman's family rallies behind husband accused in her death
  116. Judge concerned but rejects inmate bid to declare treatment illegal
  117. Corrections Canada Going Smoke-Free By 2006
  118. Corrections Canada unveils new parolee database
  119. Toronto cop convicted in beating of Somali man 2 years ago
  120. Edmonton Remand Centre guards charged with assault
  121. Family of man who died in police lockup says inquiry taken too long
  122. Guardian:The disappeared
  123. 70 year-old Nova Scotia man gunned down by RCMP
  124. Riot at maximum security prison in Renous, N.B.
  125. Homolka quit job before boss went public with allegations against her
  126. Quebec government to compensate man wrongfully imprisoned
  127. Supporters urge immediate bail for 'innocent' man in jail for almost 13 years
  128. Onetime literary award nominee asks for early parole for first-degree murder
  129. Man whose murder conviction under review released after 12 years in jail
  130. James Maltar shot by OPP in holding cell during struggle
  131. Toronto man who killed 11-year-old epileptic son not criminally responsible
  132. Addiction units in Canada's prisons help offenders out of crime cycle
  133. Union warns Ontario transfer of parole system to feds would endanger public
  134. Inmate wins smoke suit
  135. Son jailed for not caring for aging father
  136. Justice minister refuses to ban conditional sentences in violent crime cases
  137. Six-month penalty for stock tipper
  138. Federal prison guards picket over lagging contract talks
  139. Child killer cases first under review
  140. 15 in jail waiting for psychiatric assessments
  141. Restorative Justice Week Nov 13-20
  142. Prison tattoo parlour busy
  143. Please read before posting articles
  144. Dorchester is 125 years old
  145. Inmates Raise Money For The Children's Wish Foundation
  146. Critics denounce mandatory minimums for gun crimes as political pandering
  147. Prisons try snitch line to fight drugs
  148. If they are sick, why do we jail the mentally ill?
  149. Edmonton prisoner needed pills prior to guard scuffle and fatal elevator fall
  150. Lord Black may regret citizenship:'U.S. prisons are simply unsafe,'
  151. A Prison Makes the Illicit and Dangerous Legal and Safe
  152. Black wants citizenship back:could allow transfer to Can.prison if convicted in US
  153. Researcher Joseph Pannell ordered back to U.S.
  154. NYTimes:A Prison Makes the Illicit and Dangerous Legal and Safe
  155. Study targets drug use in prison
  156. Prisoners should have access to proven HIV prevention methods
  157. Truscott report concludes "miscarriage of justice"
  158. Homolka gets all release conditions quashed
  159. Prison Lockdown (Millhaven)
  160. Youth imprisonment drops by half
  161. Article: Harper Wants Mandatory Minimum Sentences
  162. Article: Alberta/Cop college bid due soon
  163. Article: Prison Guards Call for Protection
  164. Article: Canadian Federal/Officers warn about hazards
  165. Quebec appeal court recommends youth court judge's removal
  166. Article: Program has inmates supervised by 'lifers'
  167. Article:Christmas in the joint
  168. Article:Incarceration rate hits two-decade low
  169. Fugitives From Other Places Go to Canada to Escape the Heat
  170. Article: Prison Guards Fear HIV, But Oppose Clean Needles
  171. Prison inmate dies following stabbing
  172. Article: The quiet fire within
  173. Article: Planning underway for $250M facility
  174. Cop computers at risk
  175. Ontario Parole board gets reprieve
  176. Saskatchewan Penitentiary:Inmate slain hours after arriving at prison
  177. Article: Prison ministry teaches need for giving unconditional love
  178. Review of pathologist's work could add to ranks of wrongly accused in 2006
  179. About 35,500 prison inmates eligible to vote in federal election
  180. Prisoners’ right to vote under fire
  181. EBay pulls sale of inmate records
  182. Two prisoners die in jailhouse fire on troubled Ontario reserve
  183. Homolka's jailhouse letters posted briefly on eBay
  184. Article:Higher pay for ex-cons irks prison guards
  185. Article: Program aims to help halt cycle of gang violence
  186. Article: Elections Campaign - Crackdown on Crime
  187. Illegal strip search brings $10K award
  188. Federal inmates have to butt out
  189. Canada's third-world prisons:Cruel and unusual punishment
  190. 'Guantanamo North' - New Detention Center to house Terrorism Suspects at Millhaven
  191. Brockville, Ontario: Secure treatment complex for the mentally ill prisoners
  192. Prisoners getting ‘air mail’ drug delivery?
  193. Joint RCMP and Correctional Service Canada Drug Strategy Results in Multiple Seizures
  194. NUPGE asks Harper to address young offenders' legislation
  195. New terror jail spied
  196. Ex-cons win sex-abuse case
  197. Group slams mandatory minimum sentences
  198. Freeing imprisoned spirits
  199. No charges against Paul Bernardo after he confesses to multiple rapes
  200. David Asper testifies Canadian justice system was enemy in Milgaard case
  201. Inmates may have to serve full time, says minister
  202. Stockwell Day spends day touring border, prison hot spots
  203. BC: Community drug courts coming, A-G promises
  204. Vernon BC: Widow of man in home-invasion death sues federal agencies
  205. Event: Uof Manitoba, Author of Justice Behind the Walls
  206. Alberta: Jail Guards Face Vest Delay
  207. Book: Con Game: The Truth about Canada's Prisons
  208. Freeing imprisoned spirits
  209. Fraser Valley CF: Prison meal hearty, made fresh
  210. Was the wrong man hanged?
  211. Ont. MPP wants sex offender registry put on-line
  212. Community input needed in justice system: B.C.'s Chief Judge
  213. Slain parole officer's partner calls for inquiry
  214. New drug-rehab court hears its first cases
  215. Time to get rid of statutory release
  216. Saint John, N.B. - Presumed Guilty
  217. Air India bombing figure denied parole
  218. Students taught about early signs of abuse
  219. B.C. government dreams of a segregated society
  220. Canadian Charter of Rights - The Kirpan Decision/The Supremes fail again
  221. Abuse tied to Iowan's restraint chair
  222. TOEWS Want 'Thugs' Locked Up Longer
  223. Do not pair up junior officers, a coroner's jury recommends
  224. Sex Laws / Harper Goverment Gives Priority to Anti-Sex Legislation
  225. Youth jail stats suggest new youth justice act is working, say experts
  226. Manitoba:Inmates' advocates impatient for closure of women's jail
  227. Manitoba to build women's prison
  228. Tory platform would create prison-building boom: experts
  229. Conservatives will introduce mandatory minimum sentences
  230. Prime Minister Harper's address to CAN PROF Police Assoc
  231. Racism rampant in Toronto jails, 2 guards say
  232. Make all criminals give a DNA sample: Investigator
  233. Conservatives operating on GG warrants to run government
  234. Fugitive caught, 2 remain at large
  235. Jail-moms to raise kids
  236. Treated well in Belarus jail, reporter says
  237. Brampton super-jail for youth opposed
  238. Crown urges lighter sentence, $2M in restitution for Toronto shooters
  239. Centres target troubled youth
  240. Canadian jailed in Uzbekistan faces execution in China
  241. Civilian agency to probe police conduct
  242. Wife of man arrested in Uzbekistan returns alone
  243. Canada opens new prison facility for security suspects
  244. Prison violence on rise
  245. New Brunswick: Churches can give ex-prisoners hope
  246. Supreme Court gives thumbs up to DNA data bank
  247. Guards demand con blood tests
  248. Parole crime dips
  249. Canada / New 2006 budget / more prisons /Gov. expecting many more prisoners in Canada
  250. New sentencing rules will put more criminals in jail, at hefty cost
  251. Fighting crime with politics
  252. Extreme law always results in extreme injustice
  253. Filling the jails
  254. Stony Mountain Penitentiary: Inmate died of asphyxia: autopsy
  255. Prison system failing women despite repeated calls for change, critics say
  256. Crime bill sets mandatory minimum sentences
  257. Halifax drug offender first Nova Scotian to wear GPS device
  258. Canada warned against U.S. style drug crackdown
  259. Canada's first privately-run jail returns to the public sector
  260. Prisoner transferred from U.S. to Canadian facility
  261. CONTRABAND AT DONNACONA INSTITUTIONh
  262. Kent Institution Locked down as of May 7_06
  263. UN human rights commission questions Canada on wrongfully convicted
  264. Colin Thatcher granted day parole
  265. Transsexuals can choose male or female officer for strip search
  266. Biker gang member killed in federal prison as inmates look on
  267. Mother wrongly charged in killing daughter, not allowed to sue doctor
  268. Terror suspects' lawyers slam prison conditions
  269. Supreme Court of Canada hears anti-terror law appeal
  270. Truscott review begins
  271. Day in jail enough for youth guilty of manslaughter
  272. Remand inmate says he was raped in cell
  273. Three-week lockdown at Edmonton maximum security prison
  274. SIU's suicide ruling stuns brother
  275. Chief justice laments high cost of going to court
  276. Do kids, 10, belong in court?
  277. Street-gang influence expands in prison
  278. Phillion,convicted in 1967 slaying, gets new hearing
  279. Ont. courtroom TV coverage could be coming soon
  280. Housing members of rival gangs together is helping to cut inmate violence
  281. Appeal Court rules Alta. Mountie who shot prisoner not exempt from jail time
  282. Demanding body fluid tests illegal: Court
  283. Bill on repeat offenders introduced in House
  284. Winnipeg teens charged in 'random' homicide
  285. NEWS: Ottawa seeks to deport U.S. sex offender.
  286. Ex-biker leader Boucher denied request to visit dead father in funeral home
  287. Stopping access to safe prison tattoos creates public risk
  288. Electronic monitoring project to track high-risk offenders
  289. Police nab child abuse suspect in online chat
  290. Ex-Mountie going to prison for sex assault of prisoner
  291. Ontario's legal aid imposes strict limits on funding
  292. Auditor general's report slams former prison official over salary
  293. Ottawa cuts funding for prison tattoos
  294. Costs mounting for 'very expensive lesson' for N.L. justice system
  295. Prison Guards to be Armed with Stun Guns
  296. TV cameras allowed in Steven Truscott appeal
  297. Top court bars use of criminal evidence obtained through hypnosis
  298. Inmate found dead in Kingston Pen
  299. Karla Homolka
  300. Crown, police cited in Driskell's wrongful conviction
  301. CO shoots self with prison issue weapon
  302. Alberta jails ban nicotine patches after inmates light up
  303. Assaults rising in Canada's federal prisons
  304. Inmate VINCENZO (VINNY) CIPOLLONE passes away in Muskoka Hospital
  305. Prison official tells Montreal war crimes trial about accused's jail beating
  306. Shoplifter wins damages for injury during theft
  307. Ontario faces spectre of wrongful convictions
  308. Article: Mobster jailed in Russo case stabbed
  309. No guaranteed right to a lawyer in all cases, top court rules
  310. Prisoners set fire and cause damage in detention centre near Quebec City
  311. Toronto Police Beatn Black Man Charge HIM W/ Assault!
  312. Jailed but not yet found guilty
  313. Move to ban smoking in Quebec prisons raises fears of tension with guards
  314. Ontario court acquits Truscott, calling 1959 conviction 'miscarriage of justice'
  315. RCMP faces $47.5-million lawsuit alleging force entrapped former addict
  316. One prisoner critically hurt in violence at Edmonton maximum-security prison
  317. Martin Ferrier working to beat 'monster' rap
  318. Court lets suspects sue police for negligence
  319. Mullins-Johnson acquitted of 1993 death of his four-year-old niece
  320. Panel to urge ending early release for inmates
  321. Prison system needs cash infusion to combat violence and despair: ombudsman
  322. N.L. government paying $750,000 to man who waited 8 years for appeal
  323. Tories decide to stop opposing death penalty for Canadians convicted abroad
  324. Number of prisoners rises for first time in a decade
  325. Report exonerates staff in prison death
  326. Joyceville - 1 dead 3 taken to hospital
  327. B.C. prison locked down after inmates set fires over privacy concerns
  328. Man killed in Peel halfway house
  329. Guards trained to use pepper spray in maximum security prisons: reports
  330. Newborn goes to prison in B.C. first
  331. BC Woman raises baby in Federal Prison...
  332. Police emergency response team quells prisoner uprising at B.C. jail
  333. Court allows unjust searches
  334. Inmates Almost Riot At Maplehurt Complex - A Protest Of Conditions
  335. MAPLEHURST JAIL - HUNGER STRIKE - The Beginning - Maplehurst Complex
  336. Dying Ontario man gets last-wish acquittal on 33-year-old murder conviction
  337. A bad prison situation is about to get worse
  338. Anyone know where I can downoad thr following
  339. mountain institution lockdown
  340. Woman baffled by fiancé's death in jail cell
  341. Second prison inmate dies following riot at Mountain Institution
  342. Smuggling arrests at Ford Mountain
  343. "From the minefields of Kosovo to Kent Prison"
  344. PoCo Prisoner 'terrified' for his life
  345. Nova Scotia jail guards refusing transfer of prisoners: justice minister
  346. Ottawa parents lodge complaint after son, 10, handcuffed by police
  347. Strife ahead as inmates face total smoking ban
  348. 'I get to live the rest my life free': Baltovich acquitted
  349. Mentally ill 'overrepresented' in Canadian jails: report
  350. Joyceville on Lockdown
  351. Home from Mexican Prison
  352. Suspects can confess to crimes they didn't commit: Police officer
  353. Grand Valley institution axes two managers
  354. Canadian federal prisons bans all smoking
  355. Brenda Martin released on full parole
  356. Victoria teen tethered to jail cell door awarded $60K by B.C. jury
  357. Prison staff failed to help inmate who bled to death: report
  358. Money-Laundering investigation...
  359. Prisoner Bolts From Don Jail And Grabs Cab To Escape
  360. Crowded jails are leading to violence, guards' union says
  361. Prison guard who aided gangster's escape to be sentenced
  362. 'Changes' to YOA including automatic adult sentences for violent crimes?
  363. Ex-prison guard gets 64 months behind bars
  364. Death of 19-year-old inmate preventable
  365. 8 inmates stabbed, one shot at Edmonton Institution
  366. Drumheller in lock down (07/05/2008)
  367. Prison Justice Day Rally August 10/08
  368. Steven Truscott to get $6.5M for wrongful conviction
  369. Crime and Punishment