Budlakoti: The Ottawa Jail is no vacation – especially during COVID-19

In a recent Ottawa Citizen article, Michael David Reid, a man formerly incarcerated at the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Detention Centre, described his time there as “a vacation at the Four Seasons." As someone whose been locked up at OCDC for over 30 months, I feel obligated to respond to this – particularly in the context of a pandemic. Read More