B.C.'s mental health detention system violating charter rights: report

VANCOUVER — A new report says British Columbia’s system for detaining people with mental health issues is violating their charter rights.
Report author Laura Johnston, a lawyer with the Community Legal Assistance Society, says the problems with the provincial Mental Health Act include people in care being put in solitary confinement or involuntarily given treatments like electroconvulsive therapy.
The report also found that female patients routinely have their clothes removed by male