Their lack of compassion baffles me," Deschene wrote in a recently published journal which gives Canadian inmates a voice in conversations around justice reform. The journal, put out by the University of Ottawa Press, is most likely the only peer-reviewed prisoner-author journal in the world, said co-managing editor Kevin Walby. In the journal, Beaulieu wrote about how, from behind bars, Toews appeared to "dislike all the federal prisoners." The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, published through the University of Ottawa Press, is making sure prisoner voices are included in conversations of justice reform. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's mandate letter included directives to review the changes in Canada's criminal justice system and sentencing reforms over the past decade, with outcomes to include increased use of restorative justice and reducing the number of Indigenous inmates.

Source: CBC News December 03, 2017 18:37 UTC