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  1. Jul 31, 2020 · The death of her brother weighs on Prairie Crowe’s mind. Nicholas Dinardo is alive, but behind bars. The 28-year-old Indigenous man has attempted suicide multiple times and spent long stints in ...

  2. Jul 31, 2020 · Nicholas Dinardo, seen in an undated handout photo, is alive and incarcerated. The 28-year-old Indigenous man has attempted suicide multiple times and spent long stints in isolation, including for ...

    • Human Rights Complaint
    • Punishment For Mental Health Issues
    • 'I Worry All The Time That He Won't Make It,' Sister Says

    On Friday, Dinardo filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). The complaint alleges his distress has been met with force by corrections staff and exacerbated by an absence of mental-health care. Dinardo outlines how he's Cree from Saskatchewan's Piapot First Nation, but was born in ...

    Over the years, Dinardo has lived in other isolated conditions, his complaint says. He alleges being met with force by corrections staff after self-harming. "Instead of providing him with culturally appropriate healing services to help him address his own trauma ... CSC responds to him with uses of force," said Jennifer Metcalfe, executive director...

    Dinardo details one time this year when, upon returning to his maximum-security prison after self-harming, he was put in restraints. "After about three hours, they finally let me use the washroom and afterwards I refused to be strapped down again. They hosed me down with pepper spray," his complaint reads. Once restrained again, he wasn't allowed t...

  3. Jun 11, 2024 · The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, or CHRT, is hearing expert testimony in the case of Nicholas Dinardo, a member of Piapot First Nation has filed a complaint against Correctional Service Canada (CSC). Dinardo, who uses the pronouns they/them, is Two-Spirit. The complaint began on February 12, 2024. Dinardo, who was formerly incarcerated ...

  4. Aug 19, 2021 · Nicholas Dinardo v. CSC – 2 For example, after I was transferred from Kent to Atlantic Institution (Atlantic) in September 2020, I was placed on what was supposed to be a mental health unit, but the unit manager would antagonize and insult me and put my life in danger. I remember him asking me about my gender and sexuality within earshot of

  5. Submitted photo)Martha TroianAPTN InvestigatesPrairie Dinardo is urging people on social media to write to her younger brother, hoping to cheer him up, as he sits alone at the Regina Correctional Centre.Nicholas Dinardo, 26, of Piapot First Nation – located northeast of Regina – has been in solitary confinement for nearly eight months ...

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  7. Mar 7, 2023 · by Emilie Wren Mar 7, 2023 12 min. Art by Rowan Hynds, Nick Dinardo's cousin. After years of having their human rights violated by correctional officers and being criminalized by Canadian courts, Nick Dinardo, a Two-Spirit Cree individual, continues to challenge Correctional Service Canada (CSC) for the abuse they suffered and the violence ...