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The Mother and the Murderer: Woman confronts son’s killer in prison
Carolyn Solomon, a mother of two from Sudbury, Ontario, travelled 1,500 kilometres, past razor-wire topped steel fences and gun-toting watchtower guards, into the bowels of a federal penitentiary, to confront the man who murdered her son.
The inside story of how dogged cops caught Canada’s worst rapist
Canada’s worst rapist, a serial predator who may have assaulted more than 1,000 women, is free from prison and one of the investigators who caught him is certain he’ll strike again. But Selva Subbiah, 56, (inset) should not pose a threat in Canada.
Unsolved murders blamed on “incompetent” Quebec police
Police in Quebec have long been among the worst* in Canada at solving murders. Now, one man – bolstered by decades of meticulous research – is challenging this futility with a demand for an inquiry and the formation of a cross-departmental,
Another psychopath and sex predator freed from prison
There may be 3,500 psychopaths behind bars in Canada’s prisons, roughly one quarter the male penitentiary population, according to researchers. They are conscienceless predators and manipulators driven only by a desire for self-gratification.
Prison service can’t contain spending or limit inmate deaths, report shows
Despite an enormous infusion of cash in the past decade, the agency that runs the country’s penitentiaries has failed to deliver on longstanding promises to reduce prisoner deaths and has failed to limit critical security incidents that endanger staff ...
Former thief orchestrates ‘Christmas break-in’ that gives
Robin Marc Smith had a 30+ year career as a thief and fraud artist
At least one prison farm should reopen, Liberal MP says
A veteran Liberal MP who once oversaw Canada's federal prison system says at least one convict-run penitentiary farm among six shuttered by the Conservatives should be reopened and he's pushing his caucus to do it.
Williams case “extraordinarily unusual,” defence lawyer says
Heinous crimes scar participants in the criminal justice system
Witness to murder: “I will always blame myself”
Is a witness to evil, who does not intervene, culpable or guilty only of cowardice? Annette Rogers has been to this precipice. Her scarred conscience reflects her failure. She did not do the difficult thing, the right thing. If Rogers had,
'I only wanted to borrow her for a while, not kill her'
Sheryl Gardner (above) was just 20, on the cusp of a promising career as a model in Toronto when 28-year-old Ralph Ernest Power schemed his way into her apartment, dressed convincingly as a telephone repairman. It was the evening of July 2, 1981.