POLS 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sensory Deprivation, Prisoner Abuse, Louise Arbour
7 Dec 2017
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Seg. is made by prison of cials under the. Corrections and conditional release act (ccra: the purpose of ad. Seg. if there is no reasonable alternative (s. 31 (3)), but the power can be delegated: reasonable grounds, the institutional head must have reasonable grounds to do so (31(3) (a-c)): The inmate is acting in a way that jeopardizes the security of the penitentiary or the safety of any person . Allowing the inmate to associate with other inmates would interfere with an investigation. The inmates safety is in jeopardy: review of ad. Seg: the regulations to the act provide that after admission to ad. It involves a signi cant reduction in the residual liberty of an inmate. Seg: visible minorities, women, people with mental health challenges, and indigenous people are disproportionally sent to solitary con nement, between 2005 - 15, overall increase in the population was 13. 6% The number of women increased 77. 4% (368 to 653)
