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It s hard. We lost someone important to us.
Three days earlier, said RIcher, she had spoken to him from the jail and he was excited about getting out, so, like, what s going on and what happened?
Dr. Louise McNaughton-Filion, regional supervision coroner for eastern Ontario, says it could take months to determine the cause of Rafter s death.(Judy Trinh/CBC News)
The Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services said in an email that a mandatory internal investigation into Rafter s care and custody will determine if proper policies and procedures were followed, but the ministry couldn t give further details.
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The evidence of systemic racism in our country, including in our so-called justice system, is indisputable. As criminologists, we know that Indigenous and Black people are heavily represented in our prisons, and are treated more harshly at every stage of the âjusticeâ process: from arrest, charges, prosecution, bail hearings and sentencing; to the use of force and segregation placements behind bars; to release. And while many politicians decry systemic racism, they keep giving more funding to police and prisons.
As our leaders talk of âbuilding back betterâ after the pandemic, itâs time to fundamentally rethink how to make communities safer. Instead, our governments are showing an utter collapse of imagination and moral leadership by doubling down on current practices, which will result in more people killed by police or dying in prison.
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Recently, the Ontario ministry of the Solicitor General announced the $385,000 rollout of ion scanners across 10 provincial institutions, including the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC). These machines are being sold as a necessary addition to the full body x-ray scanner project initiated by the province in 2016. Unfortunately, both contraband detection technologies are unreliable, and their use at OCDC and elsewhere will result in unintended consequences for people not involved with bringing in drugs.
Ion scanners donât definitively show whoâs carrying contraband in the body, but rather who has trace elements of drugs on their person. These machines are incredibly sensitive and trace amounts of drugs can be picked up by something as common as handling money. Ion scanners are currently used to screen visitors in federal institutions, resulting in a concerning number of false positives.