Imbalanced support system, SIU use drive mental-health challenges in prisons, experts say
NDP MP Matthew Green says that there’s 'very little' for inmates, and that their experiences often 'compound' mental health problems they may have already had.
Structured intervention units are not a strong enough reform and federal consultations on their use have not quelled calls for their use to be abolished, say inmate advocates who call their similarity to solitary confinement "torture." Their use is just one of the standing issues affecting mental he...
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