#solitary-confinement

A couple of weeks ago, a jury looking into the suicide of Yousef Mohamed Hussein, an inmate who took his own life in segregation in an Ottawa detention centre back in 2016, came out with 29 recommendations

It is getting to be a real crime. All is not well in Canada’s prison system and Public Safety minister Ralph Goodale, charged with making it better, is working against the clock. In fact, a fuse is hissing

A historic decision has put Canada at the forefront of an international movement against solitary confinement. The B.C. Supreme Court found that Canadian laws governing solitary (or administrative segregation)

An Ontario prison guard could face punitive measures and potential dismissal for blowing the whistle on the handling of an inmate placed in solitary confinement. In a series of tweets posted in May, Chris

Ever since the deaths of Ashley Smith in 2007 and Eddie Snowshoe in 2010, there has been an increased focus on the use of solitary confinement in Canada. In the past two months, there has been a significant

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that current laws governing the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons are unconstitutional, concluding a landmark Charter application launched three

In the wake of the acquittal of Gerald Stanley in the death of Colten Boushie, there have been loud calls for reform to address Canada’s blatant systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Boushie,