Documents reveal troubling details about long-term solitary confinement
Forty per cent of Ontario inmates who were locked away in solitary confinement for 30 or more straight days – twice the limit permitted under the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela Rules – suffered from mental-health issues or other special needs, an analysis of more than 600 inmate records from the last five months of 2014 found. The Globe and Mail obtained 1,100 pages of Ontario detainee records.
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