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Recommendation 21:
The BC Human Rights Commission to prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations including sex workers in areas such as: Public space governance, Income assistance and disability policy, Housing policy and residential tenancy law, Child welfare law and policy, Policing law and policy, Health policy related to mental health and substance use, Privacy law as it relates to people who live in public spaces and people who are criminalized
as a result of poverty and substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Public services ,
- Sexism ,
- Tenancy rights ,
- Workers’ rights
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Recommendation 8:
To ensure the IIO’s unquestioned authority to act, I recommend that its essential powers be entrenched in legislation, such as: the IIO director and investigators have the status of peace officers; the chief constable of the jurisdiction in which a police-related death occurs must immediately advise the IIO of the incident; pending arrival of the IIO at the incident scene, the chief constable must ensure that the scene is secured and that officers involved in the incident are segregated from each other; officers involved in the incident must not communicate with each other about the incident, except as authorized by the IIO; the IIO becomes the lead investigative agency, and the home police department has no investigative responsibility or authority, except as granted by IIO; a witness officer must promptly make himself or herself available for an interview with the IIO investigator, and must promptly deliver to the IIO all notes, reports and other investigative materials relevant to the incident, and; a respondent officer may be—but is not compelled to be— interviewed by the IIO, and must in all cases promptly deliver to the IIO all notes, reports and other investigative materials relevant to the incident.
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Recommendation 1:
I recommend that the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the provincial Ministry of Housing and Social Development, and the Aboriginal community jointly develop a comprehensive response to the needs of homeless chronic alcoholics within the city of Vancouver. This would include (but not be limited to) the following components: a civilian-operated program for attending to chronic alcoholics who are incapacitated in a public place; a civilian-operated sobering centre; an enhanced civilian-based detoxification program; the provision of permanent low-barrier housing designed for the specific needs of chronic alcoholics, which would offer (if needed) palatable alcohol substitution and managed alcohol programs, and; the provision of community-based, multidisciplinary assertive community treatment services.
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Recommendation 39:
We recommend that the federal and British Columbia ministries responsible for corrections include mental health experts and key stakeholders, including Prisoners’ Legal Services, to be involved in the transformation of segregation and separate confinement, and mental health strategies, and to be open and transparent during that process. This process should include a review period over a number of years, to allow failures to be reconsidered and developed into successes.
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Recommendation 38:
We recommend that Canada, British Columbia, the Correctional Service of Canada and BC Corrections amend their laws and policies related to medical professionals to be in accordance with the Mandela Rules.
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Recommendation 37:
We recommend that federal and provincial medical regulatory bodies and associations develop guidelines for medical practitioners who work in prisons to comply with the sections of the Mandela Rules that apply to health care providers. Specifically, guidelines should stipulate that health care professionals who work in prisons must not play any role in approving prisoners to be held in solitary confinement, must report to the warden if they consider a prisoner’s physical or mental health is at risk by continued solitary confinement, and must report the use of solitary confinement on prisoners with mental disabilities or solitary confinement of more than 15 days to the applicable regulatory College of Physicians, the federal Correctional Investigator or provincial Investigation and Standards Office, and the federal or provincial Minister of Justice.
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Recommendation 36:
We recommend that any prisoners in voluntary segregation or separate confinement due to mental health problems be offered additional mental health supports, and offered placement in a unit specifically designed for prisoners who have difficulty interacting socially with others, to be staffed by correctional officers and mental health professionals skilled at encouraging positive social interaction.
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Recommendation 32:
We recommend that all staff who work with male and female prisoners be trained extensively in trauma-informed care, and that a trauma-informed approach be implemented in all federal and provincial prisons.
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Recommendation 31:
We recommend that the Correctional Service of Canada and BC Corrections change their policies on how to respond to security incidents involving a prisoner in physical or mental health distress to a medical or mental-health response, with security staff present but not intervening unless necessary to prevent imminent harm.
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Recommendation 12:
That the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions conduct an evidence informed and outcomes-based review of extended leave for children and youth who are detained under the Mental Health Act to: assess the effectiveness of extended leave as a mental health intervention for children and youth, and if extended leave is determined to be effective, review the need for additional legislative or regulatory criteria and oversight mechanisms, and review the extent to which children and youth are aware of and exercise their rights on extended leave. Review to be complete by Jan. 1, 2022.
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