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November 17, 2016

Stop this torture of using prolonged solitary confinement

No person, regardless of their crime, should be denied basic human dignity and put in prolonged solitary confinement, writes editorial.

Prolonged solitary confinement of prisoners — torture according to the United Nations — has no place in a just penal system. Yet isolating inmates for lengthy periods remains common practice at Canadian penitentiaries. It must stop.

Published in Editorial