Alberta hit with class-action suit over jails' segregation policies

The Alberta correctional service has been named in a class-action lawsuit alleging misuse of administrative segregation in provincial jails.
Documents filed with the Court of Queen’s Bench claim inmates in segregation have acquired skin conditions, gone weeks without seeing the sun, been fed only two sandwiches a day, and developed sores from sleeping on concrete.
The file alleges that placing inmates in administrative segregation is handled “secretly and idiosyncratically” in