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West Coast Prison Justice Society
Recommendation 82:
Eliminate the use of spit masks.
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Recommendation 56:
Eliminate the use of Emergency Response Teams in regional treatment centres and on mental health units. Ensure decisions to deploy the ERT consider the potential traumatic impact of the team on the prisoner and weigh the potential for psychological harm against the potential benefit of using this high level of force. Amend policy to reflect this.
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Recommendation 4:
During waking hours, the norm should be free movement and the opportunity for meaningful activities and meaningful human interaction. This could include a variety of organized recreational, educational, cultural, spiritual and occupational activities facilitated by qualified staff, volunteers, community service providers and peers, and should include unstructured time indoors and out of doors.
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Recommendation 36:
Develop policy and training on dual loyalty and the domestic and international ethical obligations of medical professionals working in prisons.
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Recommendation 62:
Develop policy and training on dual loyalty and the domestic and international ethical obligations of medical professionals working in prisons.
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Recommendation 11:
Develop an alternative model for recognizing and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis, in partnership with the Provincial Health Services Authority (including the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and trauma-informed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 55:
Develop an alternative model for identifying and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis in partnership with mental health experts (including experts in forensic psychiatry) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and traumainformed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 10:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 54:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams at treatment centres and maximum and medium institutions to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 5:
Consider the removal, display, or threatened use of spray irritants, and threats to bring the ERT, reportable uses of force.
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