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Investigation: Canada’s psychiatric prisons have highest death, assault ratesNumbers obtained by Global News indicate inmates are disproportionately subject to violence and death in the institutions designed to care for them best.CanadaMay 1, 2014
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N.S. inmate dies after being found unresponsive in jail cellNova Scotia's Justice Department says a man who was found unresponsive in his cell at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility has died.CanadaNov 7, 2016
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Dorchester jail death raises issues of use of force, health care: investigatorHoward Sapers said in an interview his office is delving further into the circumstances surrounding the death of 33-year-old Matthew Hines.CrimeAug 23, 2016
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‘Jails are not hospitals’: Health workers call for end to incarcerating sick detaineesProvincial and federal governments are under renewed pressure to stop putting immigration detainees with severe mental illness in jail and solitary confinement indefinitely.CanadaMay 17, 2016
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Ontario won’t commit to ending use of mental illness as a reason for solitary confinementOntario corrections officers are breaking the province's own rules -- and breaching the terms of a human rights settlement -- by using mental illness as a reason for segregating inmates.CanadaMay 5, 2016
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A severely sick man spent 400 days in solitary. This isn’t an anomaly: In Canada, it’s commonSevere illness was the reason Canada's border police put him in jail. It was the reason, once in jail, he was placed in solitary confinement.CanadaApr 29, 2016
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2 suicides at same N.S. women’s prison ‘raises a lot of red flags’: ombudsmanCamille Strickland-Murphy's suicide at the Nova Institute for Women followed the death of another woman, in April, who was serving time at the same prison.CanadaAug 14, 2015
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Inmates with mental illness subject to ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ suit allegesA Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.CanadaJul 17, 2015
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Global News nominated for dozens of national RTDNA awardsGlobal News has been nominated for 12 national RTDNA awards, including one nomination in every digital category.May 12, 2015
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Feds closing 500 acute-care beds for sick inmatesFederal prisons are closing 515 acute-care beds, transferring them to "intermediate," and halving the number of acute and supportive spaces for women inmates with mental illnes.CanadaMar 5, 2015
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