by CCJC Admin | Sep 25, 2010 | Stories on Sentencing
This story is about a man whose case was referred to a sentencing circle, a community-based, pre-sentence advisory process with a strong reparative and restorative focus. He received a community sentence rather than three years in prison for several driving and theft...
by CCJC Admin | Aug 25, 2010 | Stories on Sentencing
In 1991 in the community of Teslin located in the southern area of the Yukon composed primarily of aboriginals with the Teslin Tlingit Band, a 42-year-old man pled guilty to the sexual assault of his 13-year-old daughter, indecent assault of another daughter and...
by CCJC Admin | Jul 25, 2010 | RJ Story of the Month, Stories on Sentencing
This story concerns a hostage taking at gunpoint for which the person responsible was facing the prospect of 10 to 12 years in prison. On January 17, 1993, Richard Wiens, a farmer from the town of Rosemary (a town two hours outside of Calgary) and Peter Plett of a...
by CCJC Admin | Jun 25, 2010 | RJ Story of the Month, Stories on Victim issues
A high school student burst into a classroom one day just after lunch break wielding a knife and began to stab another student. I will call him Dan. Dan was arrested, charged with Assault with a Weapon, and sentenced to a period of closed custody in a juvenile...
by CCJC Admin | May 25, 2010 | Stories on Victim issues
Shortly after the murder of my daughter, I became involved with a homicide support group which met in an old run-down church in the heart of Winnipeg. Once every two weeks we would brave he could weather and get together just to tell our stories. We planted a tissue...
