A colleague passed along this 'advice from a tree' image to me last week.
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Jun 28
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Jun 15
Walking into the prison for the first time was an experience I won’t soon forget. Heavy doors locked behind me one after the other. I got this strange feeling that there was no way out. I didn’t share the same fear as my family, who worried about my safety. And I didn’t really...
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Mar 29
Crime costs Canadians. It reaches deep into our wallets and our overall quality of life. And who is doing most of this spending? Mainly victims. When we crunch the cost of...
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Mar 13
What would our communities look like if we consistently prioritized spending on education over spending on prisons? There are lessons to be learned from our neighbours to the south where several US states are looking long and hard at reversing the trend of priosn budgets trumping education....
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Feb 07
A wise friend once told me that when she meets with an inmate, she'll try to picture them as a five year old.
More than any other document, inmates are often keen to share their autobiographies with me. Often, these are painstakingly written as part of a family violence program in a...
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Jan 31
From Prison to a Place Called Home: A Forum for Federally Sentenced Women - Remarks given by Alison Pedlar at the event on Wednesday January 25, 2012.
Why is a housing forum especially necessary at this time? Not only necessary, but critical in terms of the kind of society we may...
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Jan 19
Thank you to everyone for reading, sharing and commenting on our previous 5 posts outlining the position of the...
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Jan 12
Of course! Who wouldn’t support a greater voice for victims? Who wouldn’t agree that internet sexual exploitation of children must be stopped? Who wouldn’t want to send the message that one crime is one crime too many?
WRCPC wishes for and works for safer streets and...
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