Supervised injection sites can’t replace needle-and-syringe programs in prison

A needle-and-syringe program is a health service for prisoners that must be run solely by the health care staff, not by correctional officers.

The logistics of maintaining prisoners’ confidentiality in the context of a supervised injection site are hard to fathom, when trust and confidentiality simply do not exist within the current prison environment. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY Sandra Ka Hon Chu

June 25, 2019

Drumheller Institution, a federal prison in Alberta, is reportedly getting a supervised drug-injection site this month. That would make it the first federal prison to house such a service. According to the head of the Union of...

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