Sep 15, 2018 | Legislations
There are ten times as many people with serious mental illness in our jails and prisons as in our psychiatric hospitals. What is done to them in prison—including crowded conditions, victimization, inadequate mental health care and too often long stints in solitary...
Sep 13, 2018 | Legislations
The father of a 29-year-old man who was found unresponsive after a suicide attempt in a Nova Scotia jail cell earlier this week says the system should be changed to prevent such a death from happening again. ‘This never should have happened,’ says father of Burnside...
Sep 6, 2018 | Legislations
Inquest report begins important conversations surrounding mental illness and solitary confinement in Canadian prison systems. Like Soli, Devon suffered with schizophrenia and died under state custody due to an unawareness of his mental health needs Inquest into death...
Sep 5, 2018 | Legislations
Lack of access to mental health care is what ended Soleiman’s life at Lindsay Correctional Centre. 3 years later, prisoners are still protesting against the same inhumane conditions across the prison system. As prisoners protest, is the province listening? On...
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