VANCOUVER — In a Surrey, B.C., pretrial centre, an inmate is goaded into fighting his cellmate — dubbed a "rat" by fellow ...
What binds these cases, prison advocates say, is the "con code" — a set of unwritten rules among inmates that they believe is behind attacks behind bars. But they say Canadian courts have been ...
Incarceration rates in the U.S. have skyrocketed from approximately 500,000 in the mid-70s to 2,226,832 in 2010, according to the Centre for Prison Studies’ (ICPS) last estimate. Even worse, the ...