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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Nearly two years after Ottawa declared an end to unlawful prisoner isolation tactics, federal prisons continue to practise solitary confinement and torture, according to the latest report from two government-appointed researchers. Using data supplied by the Correctional Service of Canada, or CSC, c...

In December, Covid-19 infections in prisons in the United States hit a record 25,000 in one week. Among correctional staff that month, there were an additional 5,000 new infections a week, leading to spread in surrounding communities. According to a New York Times database, collectively, more than 580,000 people at correctional institutions have been infected. The prisoner death toll has now surpassed 2,000. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Eleven months into the pandemic, the U.S. prison system has not gotten control of its rising...

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The cruel reality of solitary confinement ought to shock all caring and thinking people One night in January of 2014, two prison guards at the Colorado State Penitentiary walked a man in handcuffs and an inmate’s uniform down the prison hallway and deposited him in a solitary cell designated “R.F.P. Ad. Seg.: Administrative Segregation, Removed from Population. Solitary confinement.”  His time in that cell would be spent in crushing solitude; inside a small box almost completely removed from human interaction. He would not be alone in experiencing the quiet brutality of solitary confin...

Article content “I wake up at night and sit down on my chair staring at my children’s photos and wonder if I’m going to see them again — if I’m ever going to be able to lay roses on my mother’s grave.” Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre prisoner • Try refreshing your browser, or Dobson and Co.: Ontario is exposing prisoners to torturous conditions Back to video As the second wave of COVID-19 sweeps through Ontario jails, leaving many prisoners and staff infected with the virus, it’s clear to us that the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) and other sites of confinement c...