Canada's Correctional Investigator released it's 2024-2025 annual report today and found it was "abundantly clear that CSC is fundamentally ill-equipped to provide long-term mental health care to individuals with serious mental illness".

Read the full report here:
tinyurl.com/mszs9zm9

Great reporting by The Tyee about the mice infestation issues at VIRCC and the internal and external advocacy efforts led by incarcerated people.

www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Attention social justice and human rights lawyers: PLS is hiring for two positions! Apply by Sept 15, 2025: tinyurl.com/3kbjywpn

Aug 10, 2025 marks 50 years since the first Prisoners’ Justice Day was observed in 1975, when people incarcerated at Millhaven Inst. organized a work and hunger strike to memorialize the death of Eddie Nalon. PLS mourns all those who have lost their lives to the prison system.

PLS is hiring a Racial Justice Advocate – apply by Aug 1!
prisonjustice.org/pls-is-hirin...

On June 19, 2025, Prisoners’ Legal Services presented to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services - read our submission here: tinyurl.com/4vphyn5a

PLS, represented by Alina Chekh, John Trueman, and Danielle Wierenga of Allen / McMillan Litigation Counsel, is at the Supreme Court of Canada today. More on the case and live webcast link at: