What are the parties promising on Prisons?

Public Safety, Policing, & the Justice System

Prisons platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Prisons.

Conservative

Repeal Bill C-83, a bill that limits use of solitary confinement, allows use of body scanners, and sets out factors to be considered when making decisions regarding Indigenous offenders, among other things

"Repeal Bill C-83. Canada’s most dangerous and sadistic criminals like Luka Magnotta and Paul Bernardo should always be held in maximum-security prisons. Instead, the Liberal Bill C-83 instituted changes that move these prisoners to less restrictive environments over time." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23
Incarcerate trans and non-binary offenders in prisons matching the gender they were assigned at birth, including imprisoning trans women in men's prisons

"Defend women’s safety by repealing Commissioner’s Directive 100, which allows male offenders to be housed in women’s prisons and ensure that women’s spaces and services remain protected in federal institutions and policy." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23
Repeal Commissioner's Directive 100, which requires training for correctional staff around gender identity and lets prisoners wear clothing, and be housed in penitentiaries, matching their their gender identity

"Defend women’s safety by repealing Commissioner’s Directive 100, which allows male offenders to be housed in women’s prisons and ensure that women’s spaces and services remain protected in federal institutions and policy." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23
Require drug-addicted prisoners to participate in recovery-oriented drug rehabilitation in prisons where addiction treatment is available

"Require recovery-oriented rehabilitation in prisons, ensuring that more serious offenders struggling with addiction participate in evidence-based therapeutic living programs in prison, where such treatment is available." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Bloc policies on Prisons.

We don't have any NDP policies on Prisons.

Green

Focus prisons on rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners into society

"Create a safer, more compassionate society by changing our prison models and systems to ones that are focused more on rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners into society, and less on isolation and punitive measures." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Develop and enforce uniform standards to address and alleviate overcrowding, reduce lockdowns, and improve the availability of meaningful educational, vocational, spiritual, and medical resources

"Develop and enforce uniform standards to address and alleviate overcrowding, reduce lockdowns, and improve the availability of meaningful educational, vocational, spiritual, medical and other rehabilitative and reintegrative resources." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Implement the recommendations of the Office of the Correctional Investigator after the death of Stéphane Bissonnette
Invest in increased and improved rehabilitation programmes

"Invest in increased and improved rehabilitation programs, so that people who complete their sentences can more easily and meaningfully reintegrate into society." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Permanently end sustained and regular use of solitary confinement

"Permanently end sustained and regular use of “Structured Intervention Units,” i.e., solitary confinement." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Increase investment in community-based mental health services and treatment options, to reduce incarceration of individuals with mental illness
Work with provinces to develop a more effective, compassionate, and consistent model across all provincial and territorial jails
Ensure incarcerated individuals remain close to their home communities

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