Torture ‘by another name’: Canada still keeps some prisoners in solitary confinement, ‘disturbing’ new data shows
The Correctional Service of Canada says the Liberal law requires the agency to give prisoner’s the ‘opportunity’ for time out of cell, and often prisoners refuse.
Nearly 10 per cent of Canadian prisoners housed in “structured intervention units” are still being kept in conditions recognized internationally as torture, according to a new report based on data tracked by the federal prison authorities.
Almost one-third of prisoners staying in these units we...
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