Prison Conditions

• Sask. prisoner now 3 months into hunger strike over Indigenous inmate conditions

  Faith Eagle’s strike comes with a call for change when it comes to how Indigenous people are treated in Canadian prisons.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2022
  
• Nova Scotia report highlights concerns of prisoner conditions in provincial jails

  The majority of individuals -- over 70 per cent of those in provincial custody -- are in remand, which means they're awaiting a court date.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2021
  
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• Family of Quebecer serving time in Florida seeking answers following his death

  The man's mother says she suspects the conditions in her son's cell led to his death.

  Canada

  Aug 20, 2020
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• Conditions at EMDC ‘among the worst’ in Ontario: human rights commissioner

  The conditions also pose a serious risk to the health and safety of both inmates and correctional staff, Renu Mandhane writes.

  Politics

  May 21, 2019
• Ashley Smith’s family calls for reopened criminal investigation in her death

  The death of a young woman who strangled herself in a segregation cell was a homicide, ruled a coroner's inquest jury, who recommended that seriously mentally ill female offenders not be held in prisons.

  Canada

  Dec 20, 2013
• Ashley Smith inquest: Key recommendations from the jury

  A list of some of the key recommendations made by the jury at the Ashley Smith inquest, after returning a homicide verdict.

  Canada

  Dec 19, 2013
• Loubani, Greyson lend support to migrants detained ‘indefinitely’ in Ont. prison

  John Greyson and Dr. Tarek Loubani, the two Canadians released last month from an Egyptian prison, have joined the call for a stop to “indefinite” immigration detention in Canada.

  Canada

  Nov 5, 2013
• Protests planned for detained migrants at Ontario jail

  Rallies are planned across southern Ontario today to protest what activists say is the unfair detention of nearly 200 migrants at a provincial jail.

  Politics

  Oct 8, 2013