Milwaukee Expungement and Pardon Legal Advice Clinic Helps Hundreds
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Itâs normal to not recognize your past self after years of growth. Itâs also common to feel stuck in your situation. This is what many people with criminal backgrounds endureâa yearning to move forward beyond their past while it continues to stick with them.Â
âItâs that stuck feeling that I think is something that, systematically, is curative,â says Megan Morrisey, the clinical coordinator of the Milwaukee Justice Centerâs Mobile Legal Clinic and an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. âWe can lift those labeling burdens off of people so that they re free to achieve.âÂ
By Syndicated Content
Jan 27, 2021 1:17 PM
MONTREAL (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Quebec on Wednesday retreated from a controversial requirement for homeless people to follow a curfew aimed at curbing the spread of novel coronavirus, after a court ruled it put them in danger.
Quebec s Junior Health Minister Lionel Carmant said on Twitter the province would modify its decree in order to exempt homeless people from the curfew, and not challenge the court ruling.
Quebec, which imposed an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew on Jan. 9 to combat a second wave of infections, faced criticism over its refusal to exempt homeless people from potential C$1,500 fines for not following the measure, especially after a homeless man unable to find shelter died in a public toilet.
The rule violated âthe right to life, liberty and security protected by the Canadian and Quebec charters (of rights and freedoms),â Masse wrote. âFor objective reasons,â she trenchantly noted, many homeless Montrealers fear contracting COVID-19 in the cityâs shelters, âwhich are crowded in this winter period and have been the site of outbreaks.â Homeless people are likely to hide from curfew-enforcing police, and thereby be placed at greater risk of terrible injury or death, she argued â and for no goddamn good reason, I might add.
Indeed, rights and freedoms aside, forcefully rounding up people sleeping in Montrealâs bleak nighttime winterscape and shutting them up in warm shelters is thunderingly moronic anti-pandemic policy. It would make far more sense to buy and distribute proper winter-camping equipment to them.
Quebec s homeless do not have to abide by the province s curfew, as it discriminates and disproportionately hurts them, a Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday.
MONTREAL Quebec s homeless do not have to abide by the province s curfew, as it discriminates and disproportionately hurts them, a Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday. In her ruling, Judge Chantal Masse wrote that the curfew poses a threat to the health and safety of the homeless, as many hide from police to avoid fines during the hours the curfew is in effect and that many fear contracting COVID-19 in homeless shelters. On Wednesday morning, the Quebec government said they don t intend to challenge the ruling. We have taken note of the decision rendered last night and do not intend to challenge it, wrote Lionel Carmant, minister for Coalition Avenir Quebec in health and social services.