Mathias: A message to the next government on jail reform

The recent passage of the new Correctional Services and Reintegration Act 2018 in the Ontario legislature was very good news. But it arrived on the heels of a resurgence of media coverage, controversy and concerns about the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, and news of an inmate’s brutal beating death.
Should we be throwing up our hands in despair or celebration?
Huge steps have been taken in the right direction, but ample evidence says there is another side to this problem, which is still