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Recommendation 5:
We recommend that legislation and policy limit lockdowns to truly exceptional emergencies and security incidents.
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Recommendation 12:
We recommend that individuals placed in isolation for medical or mental health reasons must be offered at least four hours of meaningful human contact per day. If a prisoner’s mental health is poor or deteriorating, they should be provided additional opportunities for meaningful human contact. Prisoners should be offered daily time out of their cell including outdoors if medically safe. They should have regular and no-cost access to telephone and video visitation with family, community supports and legal representatives. Within their cells, they should have access to televisions and increased access to canteen and free snacks.
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Recommendation 9:
We recommend that health care and Indigenous healing services be provided to prisoners independently of CSC, and that these professionals provide activities and counselling to prisoners during a lockdown, particularly for prisoners with pre-existing mental health disabilities.
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- Alternative solutions ,
- Corrections ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Emergency response ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services
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Recommendation 20:
We recommend that governments fund legal aid to provide prisoners with legal representation in SIUs in each jurisdiction in Canada.
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Recommendation 29:
We recommend that CSC invest in qualified, independent behavioural counsellors, occupational therapists and social workers to be available in all men’s and women’s SIUs to provide services to promote mental well being.
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Recommendation 30:
We recommend that CSC fund an external review of staff culture at all levels within CSC to develop a plan to change the culture of corrections, with a focus on the dignity and human rights of prisoners.
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Recommendation 16:
We recommend that Canada institute legislative time limits of 15 continuous days in an SIU, with an annual limit of 30 days.
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Recommendation 15:
We recommend that Canada and CSC amend their laws and policies related to medical professionals to be in full accordance with the Mandela Rules.
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Recommendation 17:
We recommend that Canada amend legislation to ensure that conditions of confinement in SIUs do not constitute solitary confinement.
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Recommendation 31:
We recommend that any staff who behave inappropriately in relation to prisoners held in any form of isolation, or who deny them their rights, be disciplined and removed from working with vulnerable prisoners.
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