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Press Releases

March 7, 2025 | Press Release: Prison Advocacy Organizations Call for Immediate Action, Including Ending Police Deployment to Wellness Checks and Launch of Civilian Crisis Response Team

November 7, 2023 | East Coast Prison Justice Society Rasises Alarm Over Institutional Lockdowns at Burnside

April 26, 2023 | Press Release: Springhill Guard Actions in Support of PSAC Strike Should Not Harm Prisoners

March 30, 2023 | BCCLA and ECPJS React: Cautiously Welcoming Mass Casualty Inquiry Report

March 28, 2023 | News Release: Indigenous man asks the Supreme Court to hear about unethical health care in prisons

March 7, 2023 | Press Release: ECPJS Visiting Committee Report on Conditions of Confinement in NS Provincial Jails 

July 30, 2021 | Open Letter to the Leader of All Nova Scotia Political Parties

July 26, 2021 | News brief: Report raises serious concerns about conditions in provincial jail

April 26, 2021 | COVID-19 risk mitigation in Nova Scotia’s provincial jails and mass preventative release

April 7, 2021 | East Coast Prison Justice Society calls for action in wake of N.S. jail video

January 12, 2021 | Nova Scotia must protect human rights and reduce risks of COVID-19 in provincial jails

October 2020 | Nova Scotia Policing Policy Working Group releases report on 2020 Municipal Candidate Questionnaire, with results showing strong support for police reform in the HRM
The NS PPWG’s report is available and a spreadsheet with individual candidate responses organized by district is available below in the comments.
NS PPWG press release
2020 Municipal Candidate Survey Results

March 16 2020 | Open letter on the urgency of reducing incarceration during COVID-19 pandemic

March 15 2020 | Urgent open letter re health, safety and human rights of people in prison during COVID-19 crisis
We are thankful to the Mi'kmaq peoples, in whose territories we live and work. 
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