'Prison code' can form part of an inmate's defence: Federal Court

A Kingston inmate who says he joined a penitentiary revolt only because he feared violating the “prison code” has won the right to use those unwritten rules in his defence.
Mohamed Akhlaghi, 40, told a discipline hearing at Collins Bay Institution that he would have been stabbed if he didn’t abide by the code and follow other inmates on J Range, a maximum-security unit, as they staged a protest on the evening of Sept. 2, 2016.
That argument was rejected by the prison’s di