“Broken Bail” in Canada: How We Might Go About Fixing It

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Table of Contents

• 1. The Problem
  • Figure 1: Provincial Sentenced and Remand Rates (1978-2012)
  • Table 1: Percentage of Average Total Provincial Prison Population that are on Remand
• 2. The Dynamics of the Problem
  • Table 2: Percent of all people charged by the police in which the most serious offence in the incident was failure to comply with a court order (Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, Incident based crime statistics)
• 3. An Overall Assessment of the Current Problem
• 4. Where to Go From Here
  • Table 3: Identifying which Prisoners are Responsible for the Growing Remand Population (Ontario, prisoners released from remand in 2007/8)
• 5. Recommendations to Improve the ‘Bail Problem’
• 6. A New Bail Regime
• 7. Targeted Changes to the Current Bail Regime
• 8. A Final Word

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