‘People were essentially being tortured’: Federal Court orders CSC to put air conditioning in Edmonton women’s prison
The July decision directs Correctional Service Canada to begin recording the temperature in the prison's maximum-security area, and install air conditioning, but nearly a month later CSC has not committed to following the ruling.
Senator and longtime prisoner rights advocate Kim Pate says it's "well past time" for Correctional Service Canada to install air conditioning in a notoriously hot section of an Alberta prison after the Federal Court made that order and heard evidence of "oven"-like condition...
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