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Study finds bail ‘no-go’ zones block access to harm-reduction services

A recent study shows that the bail conditions placed on alleged offenders — especially drug users — are preventing access to harm-reduction services in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. SFU geography professor Nicholas Blomley and master’s student William Damon recently published a joint study with the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal that looked at ‘red zone’ and ‘no-go’ bail conditions which prevent people from being in proximity to a certain area. The study found that more than half of the bail conditions for drug offences included a no-go zone, 92 per cent of which were concentrated in…

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