CSC confirms older prisoner transport vehicles without seatbelts remain in service. After months of requests, I am asking for photographs, safety evidence and a clear response to the OCI’s concerns.
I recently asked Québec’s correctional authorities a simple question: how are pregnant incarcerated women transported, and what protects them if the vehicle crashes? The answer, obtained through an access-to-information request, was direct and deeply troubling. Québec identified the vehicles used for prisoner transport: Chevrolet vans, Ford cube
Lately, I have noticed Correctional Service Canada leaning hard on one word whenever it discusses the safety of its prisoner transport vehicles: seatbelts. I understand the appeal. A seatbelt is instantly recognizable as a safety feature. Saying that a vehicle “has seatbelts” sounds reassuring. But I have come to distrust
My life has changed in ways I would not have predicted even a few years ago. Artificial intelligence entered my life around 2023. At first, it was mostly an object of curiosity. Interesting, occasionally useful, sometimes impressive, but not something I saw as fundamentally changing what I was capable of
A few days ago, I was talking with a criminologist friend about free will. She offered what seemed like a straightforward challenge to determinism: imagine a man discovers his partner cheating. One person reacts violently. Another walks away. Same basic situation, two different reactions. Doesn't that show that
This page is part of an ongoing effort to document publicly available information about Canada's correctional system. Like our research on prisoner transport vehicles, the goal is simple: begin with the evidence, then ask what it means. One of the most striking characteristics of Canada's correctional
Should an institution ever exist solely to inflict suffering? This question has shaped much of my thinking about correctional policy and the purpose of incarceration. When a person is sentenced to prison but will eventually return to the community, what should society hope to achieve during that period of confinement?
Through correspondence with the Correctional Service of Canada's (CSC) Policy & Research Division, I learned that CSC has begun installing seatbelts in newer T80R security escort vehicles as part of its fleet replacement program. According to CSC, older escort vehicles without seatbelts will remain in service until they
Prisoner transport safety in Canada following the August 2026 collision On August 6, 2026, three people died in a highway collision near Wainwright, Alberta, when a Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) transport van collided with a box truck. Two correctional officers and one inmate lost their lives. In the days
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