‘They just said we’d like to be treated like humans’: Senate report an ‘eye-opener’ on rights gaps in prisons

There is a 'clear lack of accountability on the part of Corrections for the way they manage the prisons,' says Sen. Kim Pate following Human Rights Committee’s four-and-a-half-year study.

The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, which included Senators Wanda Thomas Bernard, left, Salma Ataullahjan, and Kim Pate, conducted a study into the human rights of federally sentenced persons. Photographs courtesy of Senator Bernards office, Senate of Canada and Andrew Meade

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BY ZAINAB AL-MEHDAR

August 3, 2021

Systems in place in federal correctional institutions do not protect and safeguard the people surrounded by its concrete walls, nor are they designed to respect the human rights of prisoners, say Senators in a report stemming from an exhaustive four-and-a-half year study. The Senate Human Rights Co...

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