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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.”
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It is time to end solitary confinement
Solitary confinement in Canada is an anomaly in an otherwise relatively humane system. The only way to protect vulnerable prisoners is to abolish it now.