Egan: If segregation is no longer discipline, what now with bad inmates?

Segregation in Ontario prisons used to be a form of punishment — versions of “the hole” — to deter or punish bad behaviour or serve as a means of protecting vulnerable inmates.
Not so anymore, says a union leader representing correctional officers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
”It’s changed, with the new segregation, to the point where it’s a joke,” says Scott Forde, 44, a guard for 17 years and vice-president of Local 411 of the Ontario