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The mandatory parliamentary review of the law created to end solitary confinement is more than a year late as successive reports find the replacement system keeps prisoners in conditions that violate their rights to time outside the cells. Senators on the Human Rights Committee have redoubled their calls on the Liberal government and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc to answer for the system’s failures, and to address outstanding recommendations outlined in their 2021 report on prisons.
contacted both the chair and vice-chairs of the House Public Safety and National Security Committee—which studied Bill C-83 in fall 2018—but did not receive a response. Latimer wrote to House Speaker Greg Fergus on April 26, as the review neared the year-late mark, noting her organization’s understanding that it is “the Speaker’s responsibility to ensure that Parliament’s legal obligations are met.
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