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Canada
Ion scanners cause stress for families of prisoners, research shows.
Source — CBC
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Canada
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Devoir
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Canada
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Devoir
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Discipline
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Five years after Ontario vowed to curtail its use of solitary confinement, average inmate stays in segregation cells have grown longer, with one prisoner in Ottawa remaining in isolation for at least 835 days, according to newly released provincial data.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Drugs
Canada
Ontario’s corrections ministry says it does not track the number of opioid overdoses in its jails, even though prisoners have died and staff are routinely treating inmates for overdoses.
Source — Ottawa Citizen
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Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’
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Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement.
Bill C-83 suggests designating “a penitentiary or an area in a penitentiary as a structured intervention unit for the confinement of inmates who cannot be ma…
Source — Global News
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Canada
Nearly half of all youth who end up in custody across Canada are Indigenous, a statistic that a Manitoba activist says shows unacceptable and systemic racism.
Source — Warrior Publications
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Canada
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — RCI
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Women
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Mental health
Canada
“I don’t agree that it’s society’s fault”.
The Royal should never have accepted an acutely ill inmate like Marlene Carter at its Brockville Mental Health Centre as part of a contract it had with Correctional Service Canada, says retired Conservative Senator Bob Runciman
Source — Ottawa Sun
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Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent.
Source — Huffington Post
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Suicide
Canada
At a time when Ontario prison officials have vowed to take a more humane approach to inmate care, the province has recorded a significant rise in the number of suicide attempts in its correctional facilities.
Over the past decade, provincial institutions have averaged 106 suicide attempts a calenda…
Source — The Globe and Mail
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Devoir
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Nearly a decade after teenager Ashley Smith died by self-strangulation in a solitary confinement cell, the Liberal government has introduced a bill that would place new restrictions on indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons but falls short of the expectations of some prison-rights advoc…
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Women
Canada
Another week. Another investigation into allegations that a sexual assault victim has been treated like a criminal. No doubt this one too will result in solemn mea culpas and a pledge to do better.
Source — Winnipeg Free Press
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Health
Suicide
Canada
The number of inmates in federal prisons who intentionally harm themselves has more than tripled over the past decade, spiking again last year, prompting Canada’s correctional investigator to call for changes to ensure such prisoners are treated as patients who require medical care.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Canada’s prison agency is close to establishing new rules that would prohibit the placement of vulnerable people in solitary confinement and increase the time segregated inmates can spend out of cells.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Canada: number of prison workers suffering from PTSD much higher than official stats, union says
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Health
Canada
Approximately 1 in 20 employees at federal penitentiaries have been diagnosed with stress injuries
Source — CBC News
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Discipline
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Ontario’s prisons adviser has laid out a plan that would catapult the province’s prison system from a national laggard to one of the most progressive in the world by placing hard limits on the use of solitary confinement and prohibiting the segregation of vulnerable prisoner populations.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Justice
Canada
Elimination of some minimum mandatory sentences and reform of bail system will be under review
Source — CBC News
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Violence
Canada
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Journal de Québec
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Discipline
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Ontario is facing a $600-million lawsuit on behalf of thousands of mentally ill inmates who have served time in solitary confinement since 1985, yet another addition to a glut of litigation currently facing governments in the country over their handling of prisoners in isolation.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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