Indigenous and Black people are more likely to be involved in use-of-force incidents in Canadian penitentiaries, the federal prison ombudsman said Thursday. Correctional investigator Ivan Zinger ...

The federal government is moving forward with plans to expand its current prison needle exchange program (PNEP), despite calls for a substantial overhaul.

Inmates who work in prison haven't had a pay raise since 1981, he said, when wages were set at $6.90 a day. It's hardly enough to pay for items such as toothpaste and soap, which are not provided ...