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The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered the province to stop segregating mentally ill people in the province’s jails except in “exceptional circumstances.”
The tribunal issued an order that requires the government to appoint an independent reviewer to monitor compliance, and to collect and release data on the use of segregation, said a news release from the tribunal on Thursday. The order was given with the consent of the Ontario government.
“The order confirms that the government must take immediate action to end the segregation of people with mental health disabilities. It also includes measures that will keep the spotlight on corrections for years to come,” said OHRC Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane in a statement. “We call on the government to introduce legislation that places human rights at the centre of provincial corrections and addresses the needs of Indigenous and black prisoners, who remain overrepresented in prisons and jails.”
The government had already agreed back in 2013 to make major reforms to the use of segregation for mentally ill prisoners as part of the settlement of a human rights complaint.
However, after the OHRC checked provincial statistics on the practice and met with vulnerable prisoners across the province, it concluded in September there were still “serious concerns” about the continued use of segregation in the province’s 26 correctional institutions. The commission issued a contravention application alleging the government had breached the settlement.
The latest order resolves that contravention application and sets out what steps Ontario must take to make sure people with mental health disabilities are kept out of segregation.
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The tribunal issued an order that requires the government to appoint an independent reviewer to monitor compliance, and to collect and release data on the use of segregation, said a news release from the tribunal on Thursday. The order was given with the consent of the Ontario government.
“The order confirms that the government must take immediate action to end the segregation of people with mental health disabilities. It also includes measures that will keep the spotlight on corrections for years to come,” said OHRC Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane in a statement. “We call on the government to introduce legislation that places human rights at the centre of provincial corrections and addresses the needs of Indigenous and black prisoners, who remain overrepresented in prisons and jails.”
The government had already agreed back in 2013 to make major reforms to the use of segregation for mentally ill prisoners as part of the settlement of a human rights complaint.
However, after the OHRC checked provincial statistics on the practice and met with vulnerable prisoners across the province, it concluded in September there were still “serious concerns” about the continued use of segregation in the province’s 26 correctional institutions. The commission issued a contravention application alleging the government had breached the settlement.
The latest order resolves that contravention application and sets out what steps Ontario must take to make sure people with mental health disabilities are kept out of segregation.
jmiller@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JacquieAMiller
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