Youth Jail

In a report released April 23, 2024, the BC Ombudsperson found B.C. is failing to take action to improve conditions for youth in custody who are placed in separate confinement. (Pixabay)

B.C.’s failure to address isolation of jailed youth an ‘embarrassment’: report

Ombudsperson says B.C. has implemented just 3 of 26 recommendations made in 2021

 

B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth says the province has a “golden opportunity” to improve services for those in the criminal justice system as youth in custody rates have continued to drop over the last two decades.A patch is seen on the shoulder of a corrections officer in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday Oct. 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

11-to-1 B.C. staff to youth-in-custody ratio leads to redeployment call

Dropping custody rates mean underutilized resources should shift to other areas: youth advocate

 

The B.C. government is closing the Prince George Youth Custody Centre as of the end of March 2024. Youth there will be transferred to the province’s only remaining youth custody centre, in Burnaby. (BC Corrections)

B.C. to have just 1 youth custody centre after Prince George site closes

Minister of Children says closure as a result of steady decline in incarcerated young offenders

 

Aron Crimeni, right, with family and friends set up a Justice For Carson banner on Friday, July 2, 2021, just months before charges were laid in the death of his son, Carson. (/Langley Advance Times files)

Manslaughter sentencing date set for Carson Crimeni’s killer

Youth offender now in his 20s will serve up to three years

Aron Crimeni, right, with family and friends set up a Justice For Carson banner on Friday, July 2, 2021, just months before charges were laid in the death of his son, Carson. (/Langley Advance Times files)