Medicine Hat man shares seclusion room experiences, hopes new rules done right

Between the ages of six and nine years old, Jayden Skinner says he’d sometimes spend days at a time in a locked seclusion room in the basement of his Medicine Hat school. Now, the 20-year-old is hoping the Alberta government makes the right decision in setting new rules so that the rooms aren’t misused by teachers and school staff.  "These rooms traumatized people," said Skinner in an interview at his Medicine Hat apartment. Though Skinner acknowledges he wasn’t always the