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Canada’s corrections investigator, Howard Sapers, has revealed to have addressed a letter to the Correctional Service Canada commissioner, Don Head, and Public Safety Minister, Steven Blaney, asking for details into their plans to address solitary confinement in federal prisons. According to Sapers, the growing public pressure to place limits on the controversial practice has forced him to inquire about the progress on more than a dozen initiatives CSC said it would undertake in response to a coroner’s inquest on the death of Ashley Smith.
The inquiry had heard that Ms. Smith committed suicide and died of self-inflicted strangulation in 2007 after a lengthy period in solitary confinement. In response to a coroner’s inquest into Ms. Smith’s death, CSC vowed to make an effort to identify offenders at risk of segregation and pledged to consult on the practice with other jurisdictions. The agency said it would work on some of the jury’s 104 recommendations and rejected others including new limits on the use of solitary confinement.
According to Mr. Sapers, the letters asks for update on 13 initiatives that were mentioned as part of the CSC’s 26-page response, including several dealing specifically with solitary confinement. He stated “that will help us understand how the Correctional Service of Canada is being accountable, to not just the coroner’s inquiry but also to Parliament and to Canadians in the exercise of its duties,” adding that “segregation is a very austere form of incarceration and the policy framework around it must be robust.”
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