http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/general/crime en http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories’-‘tough-crime’-approach-broken-canada’s-justice-system <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><blockquote><div> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><strong><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">In the name of enhanced public safety, the Conservative government was 'creating fear of others, even in our relatively safe society, became a central theme, even with year-after-year reductions in reported crime,' says Howard Sapers, Canada’s Correctional Investigator.</span></span></strong></span></span></span><br />  </div> </blockquote> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">A decade of a ‘lock them up and throw away the keys’ approach has left Canada’s criminal justice system broken and public safety at risk, said a group of justice analysts at a Hill Times Events panel discussion.</span></span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">During the Conservative government’s time in power, there was a “pursuit of a self-named ‘tough on crime’ agenda; more severe and harsher penalties were seen as both the ends and the means of criminal justice,” said Howard Sapers, Canada’s Correctional Investigator. “There was a belief that crime could be best managed exclusively by the use of imprisonment.”</span></span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.hilltimes.com/2016/03/10/tories-tough-on-crime-approach-has-broken-canadas-justice-system-say-experts/53647"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">SEE FULL STORY IN THE HILL TIMES</span></a></p> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98tough-crime%E2%80%99-approach-broken-canada%E2%80%99s-justice-system&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=&amp;text=Has Tories’ ‘tough-on-crime’ approach broken Canada’s justice system?&amp;counturl=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98tough-crime%E2%80%99-approach-broken-canada%E2%80%99s-justice-system" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98tough-crime%E2%80%99-approach-broken-canada%E2%80%99s-justice-system&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=100&amp;height=21&amp;font=&amp;locale=" title="I Like it" class="service-links-facebook-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Facebook Like</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" title="Share this post on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook-widget" rel="http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories’-‘tough-crime’-approach-broken-canada’s-justice-system" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/stephen-harper" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">stephen harper</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/conservative-party" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">conservative party</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/canada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">canada</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/crime" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">crime</a></div></div></div> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:55:03 +0000 Timothy Gillespie 4456 at http://www.southcoasttoday.ca http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/has-tories’-‘tough-crime’-approach-broken-canada’s-justice-system#comments