OTTAWA - A heavily armed tactical unit took four hours to quell a riot at the Brandon Correctional Centre earlier this month. Prisons are bursting at the seams, more inmates have mental illnesses, segregating gang members gets tougher and inmates can't access the programs they need for rehabilitation.
There's some debate over whether the bills will shift prisoners to federal jails from provincial jails as they are sentenced to terms longer than two years. Some say the province's overcrowding stems from remand prisoners, who make up almost three out of every four people in provincial jail. [Ken Crawford] said that is unrealistic because prisoners are held in remand for reasons beyond delaying their trials, including shortages of prosecutors and judges and serious backlogs in the courts. He believes the effect will be to increase the number of prisoners overall because remand prisoners will stay the same length of time and more people will serve lengthy jail sentences after remand. [Howard Sapers] said he'd rather see the money spent to improve conditions in jails, get rid of double bu...
... bursting at the seams, more inmates have mental illnesses, segregating gang members gets tougher a...
What does this government's claim of support for human rights really mean? Stephen Harper spoke proudly this week of his "controversial" move to declare Quebec a nation within Canada. I challenge the Harper government to show the heart that is at the core of the word "courage." To the prime minister and to [Diane Finley], I say: My Canada includes the [Hassan Raza] family. The Free Press editorial states: "Canada is a country where the rule of law prevails." What a joke! We cannot control our youth, we cannot control our gangs, public safety doesn't seem to exist. Are we taking our frustrations out on the Raza family? Are we "using them" as an example of how law-abiding we are in order to feel we are doing something to control our city? Our pet dogs get more freedom and humane treatmen...
... up in a church? What are we doing to the mental health of these six young children?. The Free Pres... (anorexia and bulimia) are mental illnesses. People who suffer from them have a distorted body...
... people suffering from a range of mental illnesses, Judge Michael McKee released his report entitled ...
Freedom of choice, within reasonable limits, is a great thing. The opportunities which our society offers to people who are entrepreneurial are nearly endless. One can pioneer a business, and through perseverance and some skill can make quite a bit of money. In some ways, a panhandler is like a businessperson, though one who doesn't offer any tangible product, (save, possibly, for a nice feeling if you do co-operate). Sure, the panhandler's method of supporting himself/herself is a bit different from the business person's method. But everyone is entitled to strive for the necessities of life, and perhaps to strive for some things which aren't essential but which give pleasure. Our country is about accommodating people in the pursuit of their own goals by their own means - so long as the...
... problems, such as drug addictions or mental illnesses. In general, only people who are in desp...
study by the Correctional diagnosed mental illnesses, the statistic incorrectly.
Indeed, no one has really pulled apart the homelessness puzzle in this city or province. The picture is painted by anecdotal accounts from those who work with street people. It is believed that more than 1,700 people are "homeless," living in hotel rooms, rooming houses and at emergency shelters to escape the elements and to find a hot meal. There are some 200 emergency beds at a variety of social service organizations. What each agency sees is that beyond the Gerald "Catfish" McKays -- a chronic solvent abuser who is escorted by police to shelters, or by ambulance to the hospital sometimes two or three times a day -- the individuals who are hardest to house end up on the street with depressing predictability. Those with mental illnesses, whose lives are compounded by addictions and dis...
...His injury reduced his mental capacity, caused behaviour changes, and provoked d... • Most persons with chronic mental illnesses are treated in the community under family supervis...
I think it very unlikely that anybody at Health Sciences Centre knew about [Brian Sinclair]'s real needs. Even if there were staff on duty who were callous or indifferent -- an assumption we should avoid making too quickly -- health professionals would know the consequences of ignoring a medical need in terms of its consequences for their careers if nothing else. It is incomprehensible to me that even one nurse could be that harsh or that foolish. I suspect there's another story here. Brian Sinclair was described in media reports as a "homeless" man. It is possible that hospital staff moved and worked around Sinclair as he died, assuming that he was a homeless person looking for a safe place to sit and sleep -- something to which they may have become accustomed. There is a beacon of hop...
... of the approach we take to homelessness, mental illness and addictions. Instead of expecting that ... get sober and recover from their mental illnesses before we give them a place of their own, we provi...
Each province has mental-health legislation designed to protect the mentally ill and ensure they receive appropriate care and treatment," says the draft report prepared a couple of weeks after Kimveer Gill stormed the downtown Montreal school on Sept. 13, 2006. Such killers don't often suffer recognizable mental illnesses that would bring them in contact with the mental-health system prior to their crimes, said [Renee Fugere], a psychiatrist at Montreal's Pinel Institute. "These people want the public to know they exist," Fugere said. "One day, based on a various circumstances, they will act out.
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