Kim Pate

The federal privacy commissioner says it would be a mistake to give political parties the ability to govern the way they manage Canadians' personal information.

After a death at a healing lodge managed by Correctional Service Canada, critics are calling for the return of the original vision of the lodges that are Indigenous-led and community-managed.

Two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions each held an eagle feather while they testified at their bail hearing on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, about their desire for freedom.

Progressive senators tried to pass an amendment to Bill C-5 that would have given judges the ability to pass conditional sentences for all offences, under exceptional circumstances. Without it, advocates worry the bill won't ease Canada's mass incarceration crisis.

All eyes turn to Parliament with the courts upholding the constitutionality on limits to conditional sentencing. Now it's a question if Bill C-5, which will remove some mandatory sentencing, will pass. But will the bill go far enough?

Prisons are badly failing to comply with solitary confinement laws and regularly violating inmate' rights, a new report by a group of Canadian senators says.

Indigenous and Black federal inmates in Canada experience more use of force than any other racial group, the country's correctional investigator reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022.

Senators want the federal government to collect race-based data on who requests and receives medical assistance in dying in Canada.