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Guidelines Issued to Safeguard Rights of Pregnant Canadian Prisoners and their Children
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Family, Mothers in Prison, Parental rights, Children of Prisoners
Guidelines Issued to Safeguard Rights of Pregnant Canadian Prisoners and their Children by Derek Gilna Authorities in the western Canadian province of British Columbia have published a set of guidelines to govern the implementation of Mother-Child Units in provincial prisons as the result of a successful legal challenge that declared …
News in Brief
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On December 3, 2015, Brama Koroma walked into a Westwood bar wearing a black-and-white striped Maricopa County jail uniform that he had purchased online. Krystina Smith was at the bar and thought it was a delayed Halloween costume. “He was acting normal,” she said. Phoenix …
Standard Operating Procedures - Taser, Ottowa-Carleton PD
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Excessive Force, Stun Guns/Tasers
Standard Operating Procedures - Taser, Ottowa-Carleton PD OTTAWA-CARLETON REGIONAL POLICE SERVICE Tactical Unit STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE TASER less lethal option TASER Definition The acronym ‘TASER’, when used within the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Service documents, refers to the electrical pulse wave technology systems that are manufactured by either Tasertron or TASER …
Taser Toronto Photos, February 14, Toronto National Post Newspaper.2001
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Excessive Force, Stun Guns/Tasers
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Restricting Use of Conducted Energy Weapons in British Columbia, Braidwood Commission, 2009
Publication • February 19, 2016
Filed under: Excessive Force, Stun Guns/Tasers, Laser Weapons
Restricting Use of Conducted Energy Weapons in British Columbia, Braidwood Commission, 2009 RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE Restricting the Use of Conducted Energy Weapons in British Columbia BRAIDWOOD COMMISSION ON CONDUCTED ENERGY WEAPON USE JUNE 2009 Access to Report Please contact the following if you are interested in receiving a copy of …
Guidelines for Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional Facilities, CPPHE, 2015
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners
Guidelines for Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional Facilities, CPPHE, 2015 GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOTHER-CHILD UNITS IN CANADIAN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES August 2015 This document is published and distributed by The Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE) The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, …
Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally
Article • October 16, 2015
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, G4S/Group 4, International, Immigration
Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally by Joe Watson A recent report from The Sentencing Project, based in Washington, D.C., concludes that the mass-privatization of American prisons has encouraged, not deterred, many countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil—to hand over the responsibility of its prisoners to for-profit companies. …
News in Brief
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: Ricky Deangelo Hinkle, 47, began threatening other prisoners and disrupting the lunch meal at the Jefferson County Jail on September 11, 2014. As jailers were placing him in a segregation cell, he allegedly started to fight. A guard then used his Taser …
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons
Article • August 29, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Excessive Force, Political Prisoners (International), Terrorism, CIA
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matthew Clarke Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matt Clarke The Central Intelligence Agency operated a network of prisons around the globe where suspected terrorists were routinely tortured, and in …
Prisoner Wins Mandamus Case to Compel Colorado DOC to Consider Transfer Application
Article • October 5, 2014
Filed under: Mandamus, International
Prisoner Wins Mandamus Case to Compel Colorado DOC to Consider Transfer Application by Derek Gilna Prisoner Wins Mandamus Case to Compel Colorado DOC to Consider Transfer Application   by Derek Gilna   Colorado state court prisoner Robert D. Gandy, proceeding Pro Se, has won his appeal of a lower-court dismissal …
Bilotta v. Ottawa Jail, ON(CA), Complaint, 2014
Brief • September 23, 2014
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Medical, Failure to Treat, Malpractice
Bilotta v. Ottawa Jail, ON(CA), Complaint, 2014 Court File No. ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE BETWEEN: JULIE BILOTTA Plaintiff - and – HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ONTARIO, MELANIE COCHRANE CYNTHIA COVELL, JACKIE DORAZIO, DELIANE FRASER, S. GARNETT, EMMANUELLE GODIN, ROSE GYASI, ROSALIND GYASI, DOUG HORNER, JANET KAMEI, …
News in Brief
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: As previously reported in PLN, former Clay County jail administrator Jeffrey “Scott” Cotney filed a lawsuit alleging defamation, slander, libel and other claims related to accusations that he had used his position at the jail to sexually abuse prisoners. [See: PLN, March …
Canadian Prisoners Receive $3.5 Million in Settlements
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Settlements
Canadian Prisoners Receive $3.5 Million in Settlements by Derek Gilna Thirty-four prisoners in the Canadian province of British Columbia have obtained a total of $3.5 million in settlements from the government between January 2008 and March 2012. The largest settlement, for a prisoner's traumatic brain injury resulting from an assault …
Canadian Prisoners Escape via Helicopter
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Escapes, International, Prisoners-International
Canadian Prisoners Escape via Helicopter by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Two Canadian prisoners, Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau and Danny Provençal, escaped from a St. Jérôme, Quebec correctional facility on March 17, 2013 when a helicopter hovered over the yard and lowered a rope for them. They clambered up, with one …
Report Lauds Canada's Prison Tattoo Program, but Government Won't Bring it Back
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Tattoos
Report Lauds Canada's Prison Tattoo Program, but Government Won't Bring it Back by Joe Watson Like the faint and ghostly outline of a panther’s claw inked upon an old man’s bicep decades ago, Canada’s prison-sanctioned tattoo parlor experiment has faded away. In spite of a glowing evaluation of the Safer …
Two Companies Acknowledge Exporting U.S. Prisoner-Made Goods to Canada
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Two Companies Acknowledge Exporting U.S. Prisoner-Made Goods to Canada by David Reutter by David M. Reutter South Carolina-based Anderson Hardwood Floors formally announced in January 2012 that it had been violating Canadian law by exporting products partly manufactured by prisoners into Canada for the past 15 years. The announcement implicitly …
Canada's Supreme Court Reduces Award To Ex-Prisoner Sexually Assaulted By Guard
Article • September 15, 2011
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Civil Procedure, Damages, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons
Canada's Supreme Court Reduces Award To Ex-Prisoner Sexually Assaulted By Guard by On February 8, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a unanimous ruling reducing by almost half the award given an ex-prisoner who was a youthful victim of a sexual predator guard. When he was 18, Dean Zastowny …
Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Lockdowns
Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days by In January 2010, a Canadian prison tactical unit held prisoners at gunpoint during a search of British Columbia’s Kent Institution. “For 10 days, this team followed its own rules of engagement with almost complete impunity,” stated a report by …
THE ANATOMY OF A POST-TASERING DEATH
Article • May 15, 2011
Filed under: Cardiovascular, Excessive Force, Stun Guns/Tasers, Product Liability, Police, Excessive Force (Police)
THE ANATOMY OF A POST-TASERING DEATH by Lynn Wilson By Lynne Wilson The Government of British Columbia’s independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Robert Dziekansi’s death on October 14, 2007 is the most comprehensive and illuminating investigation conducted to date into the dangerousness of Tasers or “conducted energy devices or …
Canadian Appellate Court Affirms $12,000 Judgment for Prisoner
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Summary Judgment, Damages, Prisoners-International, Mental Health
Canadian Appellate Court Affirms $12,000 Judgment for Prisoner by On June 2, 2009, a Canadian appellate court affirmed a decision by Federal Court Prothonotary Martha Milczynski awarding $12,000 to Barry Carr, a federal prisoner. Carr had accused Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) of negligence and breaching its duty of care …
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