'Existential crisis': The mental health problem in BC courts
B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.
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B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.
B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.
B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.
B.C.'s courts hampered with delays; mental health assessment for sentencing and Indigenous offender reports are slowing the justice system, data shows.
'We should not build a justice system around extreme cases ... we end up incarcerating people for far, far lesser things for far, far longer'