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The Canadian government is now facing another class action lawsuit on its treatment of mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement. The law firm, Koskie Minsky, is suing the federal government for providing substandard health care to mental ill prisoners.
The class-action lawsuit was filed against the federal government at an Ontario court on Friday, which referred that the government’s ability to properly handle mentally ill prisoners has been undermined by a series of claims. According to the activists, there are “cruel and unusual punishments” for mentally ill prisoners, claiming that the government is failing to provide qualified staff and they rely too heavily on the frequent use of “force, compliance and behavioral inducement methods.”
Highlighting the federal prison system’s flaws, Attorney James Sayce stated that “prisoners in federal institutions who suffer serious mental illness are not being given the treatment they are statutorily entitled to”. The statement admitted that the alleged rigid conditions that the prisoners are being kept in is a subject of the lawsuit but has not yet proven in court. He said that “they are being warehoused and they are being subjected to extended periods of time in solitary confinement because the federal prison system doesn’t know what to do with them.” Sayce pointed out that “the effect is…the illnesses get worse, and you have serious pain and emotional stress being suffered by these unwell inmates.” Prison staff is blamed for treating mentally ill inmates with “contempt, prejudice, indifference and abuse.”
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