{"id":16832,"date":"2018-05-14T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16832"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:16:16","slug":"advocates-welcome-major-concessions-in-government-of-canadas-prison-needle-exchange-announcement","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/advocates-welcome-major-concessions-in-government-of-canadas-prison-needle-exchange-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Advocates welcome major concessions in Government of Canada&#8217;s prison needle exchange announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"May 14, 2018 \u2014 Today, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Correctional Services Canada (CSC) Interim Commissioner Anne Kelly quietly announced a prison needle exchange program (PNSP) to be implemented in two federal prisons. Many prisoners, public health experts and advocates, including the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, have fought for more than 20 years for prisoners to have access to these types of vital health programs in Canada\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"2018-05-14-Prison-Needle-Exchange-Statement_FINAL.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16833\/?tmstv=1776441569\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 14, 2018 \u2014 Today, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Correctional Services Canada (CSC) Interim Commissioner Anne Kelly quietly announced a prison needle exchange program (PNSP) to be implemented in two federal prisons. Many prisoners, public health experts and advocates, including the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, have fought for more than 20 years for &#8230; <a title=\"Statement: Advocates welcome major concessions in Government of Canada&#8217;s prison needle exchange announcement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/advocates-welcome-major-concessions-in-government-of-canadas-prison-needle-exchange-announcement\/\" aria-label=\"More on Statement: Advocates welcome major concessions in Government of Canada&#8217;s prison needle exchange announcement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[155],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-16832","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-prisons","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16851,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16832\/revisions\/16851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}