Kent Institution informed Prisoners’ Legal Services (PLS) that it could no longer hold bi-weekly clinics for segregated inmates, but provided no rationale
A federal B.C. prison has cancelled legal clinics for segregated inmates despite a recent court order to provide inmates in solitary confinement with greater access to lawyers.
That same Jan. 7 ruling also ordered the CSC to let lawyers attend segregation review hearings, the recurrent proceedings held within prisons to determine whether an inmate should be released from solitary. The appeal court said the CSC could have an additional six months as long as it followed 12 terms set out by the court, including the attendance of lawyers at segregation review hearings.
The CSC has opened units at three facilities, including Kent, that comply with the court order. It has another six coming online over the next four months, the report states.
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