Episode 12: True Crime Lawyers : Prison Law

This epsiode of RLW is called "What John Knows" because when we researched our guest prior to his interview, the first words Kelly said were, "this is a guy who's probably seen and knows too much." No joke, Prison law Lawyer John Hill has been around the justice system.

John L. Hill is a triple graduate of Queen’s University holding an Honours BA and MA in political science and a JD from the School of Law. He has lectured internationally on prison law topics at conferences of the International Association of Psychiatry and the Law. Now retired from practice, John writes columns dealing with crime and imprisonment for The Lawyer’s Daily, as well as bringing true stories of some of Canada's most notorious criminals to the public in his book, Pine Box Parole, where in Part One he looks at the role of the prison system in creating a monster out of convicted murdered Terry Fitsimmons, and Part II, “Other True Cases,” involves searing stories of five of John Hill’s imprisoned clients, including the psychopathic, ‘natural born killer’ Clifford Olson, and Inderjit Sigh Reyat, the only person to be convicted of the bombing Air India Flight 182. All stories center on the question of what if our criminal and correctional systems don't work fairly much of the time.

Lots of gems in this one so please have a listen to discover what John knows.