‘Damning’ corrections report reflects Senator concerns about human rights gaps in prisons

Over the past year the Senate Human Rights Committee has visited almost 30 prisons, where members were most struck by the 'hopelessness' of inmates.

Members of the Senate Human Rights Committee, from left, Senators Nancy Hartling, Wanda Thomas Bernard, Kim Pate, and Jane Cordy, walk through the Atlantic Institution, a men’s maximum security facility in New Brunswick. Photograph courtesy of Senate of Canada

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

November 14, 2018

Unlike some of her peers, as a social worker and human rights activist Nova Scotia Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard had visited prisons long before the committee she chairs launched its sweeping study of inmates’ human rights. But...

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