What are the parties promising on Prisons and prisoners?

This is a page from the 2019 Canadian general election.

Prisons and prisoners platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

Establish an independent Criminal Case Review Commission to make wrongfully convicted applications easier.

establishing an independent Criminal Case Review Commission, to make it easier and faster for potentially wrongfully convicted people to have their applications reviewed;

From Forward, retrieved 2019-09-30.

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Conservative

Tie parole eligibility to job skills training.
Take steps towards statutory release & replace it with earned parole.
Continue to fund extant rehab programs focusing on literacy, numeracy, anger management, & addiction.
Require all necessary admin work complete before release.

- End unescorted day passes from prison
- End the prison needle exchange program
- Require full body scans for those who enter prison

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We don't have any NDP policies on Prisons and prisoners.

We don't have any Bloc policies on Prisons and prisoners.

Green

Eliminate solitary confinement.
Re-invest in prisoner rehabilitation and preparation for reintegration into society, especially for Indigenous people and women.

We don't have any PPC policies on Prisons and prisoners.

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