Prisons are failing to comply with solitary confinement reforms: senators
Jun 15, 2022 | 2:29 PM
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OTTAWA — Prisons are badly failing to comply with solitary confinement laws and regularly violating prisoners’ rights, a new report by a group of Canadian senators alleges.
The Liberal government signalled that Bill C-83, passed in 2019, would put an end to the practice of solitary confinement.
But a report titled “Senators go to jail,” released Tuesday evening by a group of nine senators, says they recently observed widespread use of the practice.
Parliamentarians have a legal right to access federal penitentiaries to view the conditions for themselves, and 34 senators have visited such facilities since the bill’s passage.
