Mentally Ill Inmates

• Ottawa ordered to pay $20M for putting mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement

  The judge says the $20 million sum will go to "additional mental health or program resources" in the penal system as well as legal fees.

  Canada

  Mar 26, 2019
  
• Ontario’s corrections adviser urges ‘profound’ changes to segregation practices

  Last year more than 1,300 people spent 60 or more days in segregation.

  Canada

  May 4, 2017
  
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• Canada’s sickest inmates are locked in its deadliest prisons

  Kinew James wasn't supposed to spend half her life in prison. But she did, bouncing from one facility to another before dying in her cell at Saskatoon's Regional Psychiatric Centre.

  Canada

  May 1, 2014