title: Correctional investigator highlights pending adverse impacts of the government's "tough on crime" agenda.
abstract: Released in November 2010, the 2009-2010 annual report of the Correctional Investigator--the ombudsman for federal prisoners--presents a bleak picture of over-crowded prisons lacking in rehabilitative programming and increasingly populated by mentally ill and substance-dependant inmates in need of services.
authors.affiliation: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. asymington@aidslaw.ca
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Symington
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D003415:Crime; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006801:Humans; D011329:Prisoners