Quarter Century News – January/February 1974 - January/February 1974
- Name:Quarter Century News – January/February 1974
- Date:January/February 1974
- Institution: Millhaven Institution
- Topics: Community In-Reach, Crime and Criminality, Crime Causation-Correlation, Death Penalty/Capital Punishment, Mandatory Supervision-Warrant Expiry, Parole-Conditional Release, Parole/Mandatory Release, Penal Reforms, Post-Carceral Issues, Prisoner Struggles, Views on Incarceration, Violence and Abuse of Power,
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Release Description:
This issue highlights a motion introduced in Parliament to abolish capital punishment completely and replace it with a mandatory 25-year sentence before parole. Also included is an article on fewer prisoners being paroled and accompanying statistics, and a piece on the benefits to using prisoners to develop the Canadian north.
KEYWORDS: Operation Springboard, National Parole Board, earned remission, Inmate Family Services, Solicitor General, Huggessen Report
Coded by: Kate Garrett