Editorial: Ontario's jail reform is even bigger – this is an overhaul

Ontario is astonishingly out of step with modern standards – and common decency – when it comes to running jails. It’s past time this changed.
A report this week from Howard Sapers, the former federal corrections investigator who was appointed to do an independent review of our provincial jails, painstakingly details the ways in which Ontario’s penal policy falls flat, dehumanizing prisoners and their families and failing to adopt consistent, provincial regulati