Review of solitary confinement law a year late as report finds prisoners’ rights still violated

The 2019 law creating Structured Intervention Units said a review must begin in June 2023, but efforts by Senators and advocates to get government accountability has resulted in ‘non-answers,’ says Senator Salma Ataullahjan.

Senators who studied human rights in federal prisons recently accused Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and his government of 'indifference to the continued use of solitary confinement.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

November 15, 2024

The mandatory parliamentary review of the law created to end solitary confinement is more than a year late as successive reports find the replacement system keeps prisoners in conditions that violate their rights to time outside of cells.

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