Report Says Majority Canadians Jailed Due to Risk-Averse Bail System

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An astonishing recent report published by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has discovered that a majority of 25,000 people held in Canada’s overcrowded provincial and territorial jails are legally innocent and in fact victims of nothing but malfunctioning, risk-averse bail system.

According to a report published by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, “Canadians spend over $850 million (annually) on pre-trial detention, even though the majority of people who are jailed upon arrest are facing non-violent, minor charges.” In his remarks, CCLA program director and co-author of the report ‘Set up to Fail: Bail and the Revolving Door of Pre-Trial Detention,’ Abby Deshman, stated that “the cost — personal, societal and financial — of heading down this path is overwhelming.”

It was highlighted that a routine imprisonment of people awaiting bail hearing or trial has increased as Canada’s crime rate, especially violent crime, have significantly and gradually decreased. The report pointed out that violent crime is at its lowest rate since 1987, while almost 80 per cent of crime reported to police services across Canada is relatively petty and non-violent. The report said that “Canada’s jails have not always looked like this,” adding that “the remand rate has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, and 2005 marked the first time in Canadian history that our provincial institutions were primarily being used to detain people prior to any finding of guilt, rather than after they had been convicted and sentenced.”

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