By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket’s life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.
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Canadian court to consider when minors can be sentenced as adults
Exclusive: Black accused in Ontario wait longer behind bars than white people charged with the same crimes
October 19, 2017 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
TORONTO (Reuters) – Black people in Canada’s most populous province spent longer behind bars awaiting trial than white people charged with many of the same categories of crimes in each of the past five years, according to data obtained by Reuters.
‘I never reported because I felt I would be blamed’: Your stories on sexual assault
February 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Carmen is still hashing out a custody agreement with the man she says raped her when she was sedated.
This is what it’s like to take your rape to court
February 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The world is watching former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sex assault trial, and the cross-examination of women who say he assaulted them, play out in real time. (Ghomeshi has denied all the charges against him.)
Global News took this opportunity to talk to women who’ve experienced sexual assault and struggled with whether to report it and how to pursue justice in the court system.
Aboriginal-Canadian women are 6 times more likely to be murdered, 3 times more likely to be raped
November 25, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
If you’re a First Nations, Inuit or Metis individual living in Canada you are 6.4 times more likely to be killed than anyone else in the country.
Inmates with mental illness subject to ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ suit alleges
July 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
A Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.
Mental illness overwhelms prisons, police: ‘We have an urgent problem’
May 13, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Abbotsford Police routinely spend the night dealing with people who aren’t criminals.
They’ll spend hours, Chief Constable Bob Rich told a parliamentary committee, in emergency rooms waiting for individuals they’ve apprehended to see a doctor.
Opponents prepare to implement crime bill under fire for lack of evidence
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The experts who’ve argued so vehemently against Ottawa’s bill cracking down on the most mentally ill offenders are preparing to implement it, even though the federal government hasn’t been able to produce any evidence indicating it’s necessary.
Ottawa won’t cover costs of new mentally ill offender law
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News : Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:05 PM
The federal government has no plans to help provinces with costs associated with its new rules on how to deal with mentally ill offenders.
Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled legislation that would crack down on people found not criminally responsible due to mental disorders. It would establish a “high risk” classification for those who have committed serious crimes and shift emphasis to victim impact when determining how long someone should stay in custody.
If courts and review boards take this legislation to heart it could mean more offenders in provincial forensic hospitals for a longer period of time.
Ottawa won’t pay for them.
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