Wellness Within Calls on NS Justice to Look at the Whole Picture: Bail Court an Insufficient Answer to Solve Backlogs

The notion that establishing a bail court will work to reduce backlogs is a short-sighted, Band-Aid solution at best. Pushing people through the court system faster will be unsuccessful at alleviating delays without a focus on funding organizations that provide supportive services to people out on bail to help them stay out of custody.

Without a focus on community support and reintegration, the court system will continue to be a revolving door. Wellness Within (WW) urges the Province of Nova Scotia to look to the community to see what is needed to and allocate funding to organizations that provide the necessary resources for there to be any meaningful impact.

In collaboration with Coverdale Justice Society and Northpine Foundation, WW has requested a meeting with Attorney General and Minister of Justice Brad Johns.

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Wellness Within is a volunteer-based registered non-profit organization that serves women, transgender, and nonbinary people who have experienced criminalization and are pregnant or have young children in Nova Scotia, part of the unceded and unsurrendered ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

Wellness Within supports people through the full spectrum of reproductive health experience; facilitates workshops and education sessions; develops resource materials; and advocates for reproductive justice issues.

Contact: Sara Tessier, Inreach/Outreach Director, sara@northpinefoundation.ca and Natasha Hines, Chair, 902-717-2956 or natasha_hines@outlook.com .