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DAVID MILGAARD AND THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE – He spent 23 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. Wrongful convictions are a real thing in Canada.

Posted byDennis Reeve 16 May 202216 May 2022
http://www.slaw.ca/2022/05/15/the-milgaard-storys-importance-for-the-presumption-of-innocence/
Posted byDennis Reeve16 May 202216 May 2022Posted inUncategorized

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THE DISPROPORTIONATE RATE OF INDIGENOUS INCARCERATION IN CANADA – Did you know? “Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent. Bill C-5 would repeal 20 different mandatory minimum sentences, mostly for gun and drug crimes, and re-establish conditional sentences, such as house arrest, for some offences … which proposes undoing aspects of the crime agenda passed under former prime minister Stephen Harper.”

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