a business of misfits

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
  • picture this.
  • what?

Jails

Inmates with mental illness subject to ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ suit alleges

July 17, 2015July 18, 2015amp Leave a comment

July 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

A Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.

Continue reading →

Rough justice: Lockdowns skyrocket at short-staffed Ontario jails

July 8, 2015July 18, 2015amp Leave a comment

July 8, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Staffing-related lockdowns in crowded jails across Ontario have more than tripled since 2009, numbers obtained by Global News show.

Continue reading →

Feds closing 500 acute-care beds for sick inmates

March 5, 2015March 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

March 5, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Federal prisons are losing 515 acute-care beds, which are being transferred to provide “intermediate” psychiatric care as Corrections Canada struggles to cope with a crisis of mental illness among offenders.

Continue reading →

Mentally ill inmate isn’t a dangerous offender, judge finds

July 25, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Marlene Carter, a 43-year-old inmate with severe mental illness who’s spent much of her five years behind bars tied to a plank, bed or chair in a solitary cell, is not a dangerous offender, a judge has ruled.

Continue reading →

Some mentally ill inmates face solitary confinement by another name

July 24, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Special designations for federal inmates with the most complex psychiatric needs often result in their being kept in what is, effectively, solitary confinement – just don’t call it that.

Continue reading →

Tied down in solitary for years, is sick inmate a dangerous offender?

July 24, 2014July 25, 2014amp Leave a comment

July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Marlene Carter is sick.

Continue reading →

@amp6

Tweets by amp6

recently

  • Explainer: What ails Canada’s healthcare system?
  • Analysis: Canada’s decriminalization experiment no match for toxic drug supply
  • On mental illness, the time to (just) talk is over
  • Canada moves to extend exclusion of mental illness from assisted death
  • Canada’s Supreme Court gives mixed rulings on gun crime penalties

previously

categories

etc

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • a business of misfits
    • Join 35 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • a business of misfits
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar