Ombudsman recommends increasing victim restitution
Posted February 2, 2012 4:16 pm.
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A federal ombudsman wants victims of crime to receive better financial restitution and access to more information about the offenders.
A special report released today calls on the federal government to make more than a dozen changes to the justice system.
If the changes are adopted victims would know where the offender is being kept, when they get out of jail, and they’d get a current photo.
Sue O’Sullivan, the ombudsman for victims of crime, said too often criminals keep all of their rights while those who have been hurt are left in the dark.
“They don’t feel respected, they don’t feel that their voices have been heard and in many cases, they feel revictimized by the system,” O’Sullivan said.
There are 7,200 registered victims of crime in Canada.
