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Inmates of Hamilton’s Barton Jail, cut off from lawyers & family amid COVID-19 outbreak

Published in The Hamilton Spectator - February 24th 2021 As the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre deals with a COVID-19 outbreak, advocates say family members are being left...

Man gets another lifetime driving ban

“It’s like Groundhog Day,” said a frustrated Ontario Court judge as a repeat offender stood before him in Ontario Court asking for “one more chance”....

COVID-19 outbreak declared at Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre after an inmate tested positive. Prisoner advocates have been raising alarm over the risks of an...

Employee at Barton Street Jail has COVID-19

An employee at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre has tested positive for COVID-19, raising concerns among already-tense staff and inmates who fear the spread of the...

COVID-19: Ontario’s courts shut down more cases

Ontario's busiest court has suspended all family trials, criminal trials and preliminary hearings amid a growing backlash from court staff and lawyers over its continued...

What it’s like inside Hamilton’s courthouse during COVID-19

Inside the John Sopinka Courthouse, increasing precautions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have rendered most of the building empty as only the most urgent...

Dean Collett on ‘The O Show’

Hamilton man convicted in violent 2017 home invasion seeking redemption

Skylawn Johnson was “in survival mode” until he met lawyer Dean Collett. Hope is a tricky thing when you're a young man facing serious prison...