United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Indigenous governments, organizations and legal aid clinic rebuke Canada for mass incarceration of Indigenous Peoples – call for funding and authority to Indigenous governments and organizations. More here: tinyurl.com/mrz6nwrt

Prisoners deserve more information about use-of-force incidents - read the opinion piece on the recent use of force JR filed with support from PLS here: tinyurl.com/udbwa9ee

A revised version of understanding Correctional Service Canada‘s new Opioid Agonist Treatment policy information for federally incarcerated people pamphlet is available here: tinyurl.com/3pxkcme3

NEWS RELEASE: 2 people w/ lived experience of incarceration filed a case in Federal Court against CSC, challenging the agency’s practice of withholding results of internal reviews when prison officers use force against incarcerated people. More here: tinyurl.com/4m3x3wbb

80+ civil society leaders from faith, labour, enviro, legal, academic & arts communities are standing together for human rights and reconciliation – calling on #BCgov to recommit to implementing not amending #DRIPA. Read the statement: www.wcel.org/DeclarationAct #bcpoli #IndigenousRights

CSC recently changed OAT medications available to people in prisons. Read more about what that means for people in federal prisons here: tinyurl.com/45jpwrwa

PLS, with other orgs, made a joint submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissioner regarding telecommunications systems and services in correctional facilities. More here: tinyurl.com/sxwrc6np

Canada's Correctional Investigator released it's 2024-2025 annual report today and found it was "abundantly clear that CSC is fundamentally ill-equipped to provide long-term mental health care to individuals with serious mental illness". Read the full report here: tinyurl.com/mszs9zm9

Great reporting by The Tyee about the mice infestation issues at VIRCC and the internal and external advocacy efforts led by incarcerated people. www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Attention social justice and human rights lawyers: PLS is hiring for two positions! Apply by Sept 15, 2025: tinyurl.com/3kbjywpn

Aug 10, 2025 marks 50 years since the first Prisoners’ Justice Day was observed in 1975, when people incarcerated at Millhaven Inst. organized a work and hunger strike to memorialize the death of Eddie Nalon. PLS mourns all those who have lost their lives to the prison system.

PLS is hiring a Racial Justice Advocate – apply by Aug 1! prisonjustice.org/pls-is-hirin...

On June 19, 2025, Prisoners’ Legal Services presented to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services - read our submission here: tinyurl.com/4vphyn5a

PLS, represented by Alina Chekh, John Trueman, and Danielle Wierenga of Allen / McMillan Litigation Counsel, is at the Supreme Court of Canada today. More on the case and live webcast link at: