Jul 27, 2018 | Legislations
The Yukon Human Rights Commission and the territorial government have reached an agreement in response to complaints from four prisoners over the use of solitary confinement for inmates who have a mental illness, as well as those who are Indigenous. Yukon agrees to...
Jul 25, 2018 | Legislations
Lynn McDonald from Policy Options writes that “solitary confinement entails lack of meaningful human contact and sensory deprivation. It costs lives (40 percent of prison suicides take place in solitary), and causes or exacerbates mental illness.” It is time to end...
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