Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it is “unacceptable” that his government continues to use solitary confinement in federal prisons.
Asked by VICE World News on Wednesday about new data showing that the unconstitutional practice of solitary confinement, and outright torture, is commonplace in Canada’s prisons, Trudeau did not say what he would actually do to stop it.
In 2018, Trudeau’s Liberal government introduced legislation that purported to end solitary confinement—referred to, euphemistically, as “administrative segregation”—to comply with a series of court rulings calling the practice unconstitutional. The courts found that locking inmates in a cell for 22 hours a day, indefinitely, was dangerous to their mental health and constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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