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Halfway Home Proposed for the Institutionalized
Year Published: 1980Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX1078 Abstract: Members of the Toronto Justice Council are planning a meeting with people from rehabilitation and from Ontario Community Corrections to discuss the possibility of a new kind of halfway home. The home will deal with the chronic minor offenders who are heavily institutionalized. These people take up an inordinate amount of jail space, court time, and every agency's time, and no one seems to want them. In the belief that we, as human beings are called to respond to the most hopeless, the Justice Council is inviting people to share ideas. The people invited are those with insights from positive peer culture, lifeskills, and existing halfway homes. The kind of problem that must be considered is the person who comes out of a 20 hour-a-day-lock up at a place like Millbrook. In some instances this person may have no idea how to shop for a loaf of bread; yet they are sometimes on the street with scarcely a T.T.C. token, or any idea of how to use it if they had one. They are a threat to themselves and the community in this situation. The Justice Council asks, ""Have we no better answer than another round of jails, courts, and prisons for them?" The Council encourages those with some ideas, or those who can offer help to contact the Council at the above address. |