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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.
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As prisoners protest, is the province listening?
On August 21, the prisoners at the Central Nova provincial jail in Burnside launched a peaceful protest, in solidarity with a nationwide prisoner strike in the United States, to call for basic improvements in health care, rehabilitation, exercise, visits, clothing, food, air quality and library acce…