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Oct 18, 2023 · Jails and prisons, often overcrowded and understaffed, are frequently dangerous, dehumanizing, and traumatizing places where violence is largely “unavoidable.” Take, for example, Illinois, where frequent reports of violence and abuse led the Federal Bureau of Prisons to announce the closure of the Special Management Unit at the Thomson federal penitentiary earlier this year.
Feb 28, 2021 · Our prison system is dangerous: There were five murders in Canadian prisons last year, making the homicide rate in our prisons 20 times higher than Toronto. In a year, correctional officers ...
Jan 30, 2023 · While the overall federal prison population has decreased by 16% since 2012, the number of Indigenous people in custody has risen by 22%. In fact, Indigenous people, who constitute only 5% of the Canadian population, now make up 28% of the federal prison population and that proportion has been increasing steadily.
- Inmates Lack 'Meaningful Human Contact'
- New System A 'Historic Change' Corrections Officials Say
- Regional Variation in 'Torture Rates'
- Access to Mental Health Care
- Calls For Transparency
Under the SIU system, inmates must be granted at least four hours a day outside their cells, including two hours of "meaningful human contact." According to the UN's Nelson Mandela rules, adopted in 2015, isolation for more than 22 hours a day amounts to solitary confinement, and solitary confinement lasting more than 15 days amounts to torture. Ne...
Luc Bisson, director general of strategic policy and planning for the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), said the new system has led to a significant reduction in the number of inmates placed in isolation — and better rates of reintegration into the general prison population. As of Feb. 27, 2022, there were 156 inmates in SIUs across Canada, rep...
Doob and Sprott's research also found significant regional differences in how often the SIU system is used, and how long inmates spend in isolation. For example, while a greater proportion of stays in Quebec were for less than five days, inmates in the province were also more likely than most other regions to experience isolation periods long enoug...
Sylvie Bordelais, vice-president of the Quebec prison lawyers association said, according to clients and colleagues, the new system is an improvement. "They recognize that what was existing before was not appropriate for human beings — was not adequate," she said. She said inmates are able to continue to follow programs, speak with their lawyers, a...
By law, a parliamentary committee must review the act five years after its implementation, in 2024. Doob is calling on CSC to act on his and Sprott's research, in order to truly eliminate solitary confinement. "I think what we've shown quite clearly is that we haven't solved the problem," he said.
Oct 27, 2019 · Here are a few: 1. Prisons cost a lot. Prisons are expensive to operate. In the U.S., the total state expenditure on prisons is at least US$81 billion. In Canada, taxpayers pay an average of ...
Jan 5, 2021 · And according to advocates for better inmate treatment, much more needs to be done. According to Statistics Canada, in 2017/2018, Canadian prisons held just under 39,000 adults: a little under 25,000 in provincial or territorial custody (83 per 100,000 population) 14,000 in federal custody (48 per 100,000) for a national total of 131 adults per ...
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At Joliette women’s prison near Montreal — where the majority of women have histories of physical and sexual abuse, the only available work is sewing underwear for men held in other federal institutions. Payment, as with all federal prison jobs, tops out at $6.90 per day.
