Pandemic Paroles “Humane”

The pandemic is causing “psychological stress” to prisoners, says the Chief Justice of Nunavut’s territorial court. The Iqaluit judge cited Covid-19 in sentencing a repeat violent offender to eighty days in jail: “Should jail sentences generally be shorter because of Covid?”

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