Numbers obtained by Global News indicate inmates are disproportionately subject to violence and death in the institutions designed to care for them best.

Nova Scotia's Justice Department says a man who was found unresponsive in his cell at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility has died.

Howard Sapers said in an interview his office is delving further into the circumstances surrounding the death of 33-year-old Matthew Hines.

Provincial and federal governments are under renewed pressure to stop putting immigration detainees with severe mental illness in jail and solitary confinement indefinitely.

Ontario 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.

Severe 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.

Camille 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.

A Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.

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Federal 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.