News April 24, 2017 Québec : plus de violence et de suicides en prison This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News April 21, 2017 Canada: Ontario faces lawsuit over solitary-confinement practices 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.
News April 20, 2017 Canada: Ontario ombudsman calls for sweeping changes to inmate segregation Ombudsman’s probe was launched after inmate Adam Capay was held in segregation for 4 years
News March 14, 2017 Canada: prison watchdog sees sharp decline in use of solitary confinement Correctional investigator Ivan Zinger notes positive penitentiary trends in report.
News March 3, 2017 Canada : visiter des prisons pour éviter d'y être détenu un jour This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News February 27, 2017 Canada: family doctors push to ban solitary confinement in prisons Canada’s family doctors are calling for an all-out ban on the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.
News February 1, 2017 Canada: conjugal visits increase success of prisoner rehabilitation It looks like a normal three-bedroom family home. A ceiling fan whirrs over a pair of sofas in the living room. The hallway shelves carry a pile of bed sheets. A refrigerator hums quietly in the kitchen as sunlight peaks in through a curtained window.
News January 27, 2017 Canada : job training program for inmates stuck in the past, says prison watchdog Teaching inmates to build office chairs and sew isn’t preparing those incarcerated in federal institutions for the modern job market, says Canada’s prison watchdog.
News January 25, 2017 Elderly inmate's death highlights lack of aging strategy in Canada's prisons “If people are sufficiently senile that they can’t remember the nature of their crime, what’s the point?”
News January 17, 2017 Providing clean needles for inmates too risky, Canadian prison officials say An authorized item is much more likely to be converted into a makeshift weapon, said Nick Fabiano, director general of security for the prison service.
News December 15, 2016 Canada : un mort au cours d'une mutinerie Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News December 13, 2016 Canada : La liste des travaux à réaliser à la prison Leclerc est longue Sorry, this article is not available in English. You can consult the French version.
News November 1, 2016 Canada : des prisonniers aspergés de gaz poivrés Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News October 30, 2016 Canada: solitary confinement is pure torture. I know, I was there Donald Best is an access to justice advocate and a former Toronto Police Service sergeant who spent 63 days in solitary confinement in 2013-2014.
News October 27, 2016 Canada : la condition des détenus au Centre de détention d'Ottawa-Carleton s'améliore Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News October 1, 2016 Canada : Québec planifie une nouvelle prison pour femmes Préoccupé par la cohabitation de détenus des deux sexes à la prison Leclerc, le ministre de la Sécurité publique, Martin Coiteux, conclut qu’il faut construire un nouveau centre de détention pour femmes dans la région de Montréal. Dans une entrevue accordée au Devoir, le ministre Coiteux a révélé q…
News August 10, 2016 Prisoners' Justice Day: the unwritten holiday of Canadian inmates Abhorring their shitty treatment in Canadian jails, prisoners in the 70s protested for change on August 10. I wouldn’t know what that actually meant until I spent my first summer in jail.
News August 2, 2016 Canada : les rapports sur les décès en détention sont lacunaires Une étude préparée par le Bureau de l’enquêteur correctionnel affirme que le Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC) censure régulièrement les possibles erreurs ou lacunes documentées dans les rapports d’enquête envoyés aux proches de prisonniers décédés dans un centre de détention fédéral.
News July 24, 2016 Canada: medical complaint challenges British Columbia prison’s use of segregation After seven days in solitary confinement, Brett Crane told prison staff he wanted to transform into a werewolf. As his days in “the pit” marched on, he says he saw demons, heard voices and predicted that an imminent earthquake would wipe out humanity.
News June 7, 2016 What I learned from my time in Canadian prison You’re not a free man just because you are out of jail.
News May 5, 2016 Canada: I tried to turn my life around in prison but the government made it hard to do Just as I was getting my life together behind bars the Canadian government decided to get ‘tough on crime.’