Sun- Ontario only province that locks down inmates due to staff shortages
The lawsuits covers a period up to 2017, but the most recent data from the province shows that 81 per cent of inmates in provincial jails are awaiting trial and presumptively innocent.
The lockdowns strip inmates of basic human rights and violate their Charter rights to life, liberty and security of the person, and the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, the lawsuits allege.
“During lockdowns, prisoners suffer from a deprivation of health care, privacy, dignity, security and hygiene that violate even the basic standards applicable to prisoners in the correctional institutions,” lawyers write in a statement of claim.
Nova Scotia also does the same thing.
Defund the Courts. New battlefield in the War for Criminal Rights. Citizens … arm yourselves … cause it’s gonna be a rough ride.
“The lawsuits, filed in 2016 and certified as class actions in 2017, are moving ahead, with the plaintiffs compiling various expert reports. They hope a trial can be scheduled for the fall of 2025.”.
Hope springs eternal for those awaiting trial to determine if they should be in jail or not.
Those in the legal industry need sensitivity traing. Like police ride-alongs, judges and lawyers need first hand exposure to life behind bars.
So, if the lawsuit is successful, would that be a precedent for Covid lockdowns?
Screw prisoners. What about the billions of civilians locked down and deprived of basic human rights since 2020?
Don’t like the time, don’t do the crime.
81% of these people have not yet been found guilty of anything. They’re awaiting trial.
Kate’s made the point repeatedly: if you allow the government to abuse anyone they accuse of a crime, the government will start accusing inconvenient people of crimes.
I recall back in the early 2000s Ontario was granting 3:1 time served in pretrial detention towards sentencing because hepatitis was rampant in the provincial jails. Of course if a prisoner was acquitted they didn’t get a damn thing. Aside from the hepatitis.
Social workers have made damned sure.. We cant afford anything but them.. Read it and weep..
“most recent data from the province shows that 81 per cent of inmates in provincial jails are awaiting trial and presumptively innocent.”
Does not compute, given that judges have been giving bail to offenders that are already out on bail for other charges.
Must all be white guys because it sure seems that all the other losers are just and release.
Do I need to offer a description of “all the other losers”?
If you are detained before trial, it’s because you’re considered dangerous, because the Crown has shown good reason to regard you as dangerous. Innocence and guilt has nothing to do with it.
We have a serious problem with dangerous people being let loose anyway. I think it’s a much more serious problem than the fact that we might be being a bit mean to the dangerous ones we did get.
I hate to break it to you, but whether someone ends up in pretrial custody is as politicized as the rest of the justice system. I’ve sat in a courtroom and watched gangbanger after gangbanger charged with violent assault released on their own recognizance, while a middle-aged family man gets remanded on a first-time DUI.
Well, but the issue is whether what we’re doing is too extreme even for dangerous people. Whether we’re inflicting it without good reason on people who aren’t dangerous is a different issue and might call for quite different action. And the same is true of the separate issue that we release dangerous people inappropriately.
Let’s just for the hell of it say that there’s one genuinely dangerous person in the whole sad lot. Is it unreasonable to inflict on him the regimen that they’re inflicting on the prisoners now? Because only then does the regimen really need to change. If not, we need to focus on who’s tossing the harmless in, and how to stop them.
Look at all the “conservatives” rallying to keep the Coutts 4 in prison.