Paul Dube details problems with overcrowding, poor living conditions, and lack of inmate access to medical care in his annual report released Tuesday.

Correctional officers in Ontario have resolved a weeks-long dispute with the government over permission to wear face masks inside provincial jails during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even without a full-blown trial, a judge was right to decide that placing inmates in solitary confinement amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their rights, Ontario's top court ruled on Monday.

Currently they are only able to place collect calls to landlines.

A court hearing to challenge the federal government's ban on needles for drug-using prisoners has been postponed to next week.

A constitutional challenge to the federal government's refusal to provide clean needles in prisons is set to be heard by an Ontario court this week.

The changes, the commission says in a submission, do not address practices found to violate both the Canadian charter and the Ontario human rights code.

Emergency crews were called to the Maplehurst Correctional Complex at around 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday.

Black inmates spent longer behind bars awaiting trial than white people charged with many of the same categories of crimes in each of the past five years.

Howard Sapers released a report Tuesday painting a picture of a system in need of an overhaul to emphasize human rights, and that lacks the proper tools to address Indigenous overrepresentation and full oversight when inmates die in custody.