Threat of segregation only one method to keep inmates in line: advisor
Most inmates sent to segregation in Ontario’s jails aren’t there as a punishment for discipline breaches, says the province’s independent adviser on corrections.
Howard Sapers, who completed a report last year on the use of segregation in Ontario and is working on a new one on violence inside the institutions, was responding to a claim by the union representing staff at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre that restrictions on the use of segregation had made it “open seas
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