Supreme Court grants prisons a reprieve on solitary confinement cap
The federal government won't have to comply immediately with a court decision that limited solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided.The Supreme Court of Canada has granted the federal prison system a temporary reprieve from a lower-court order that would have imposed a 15-day limit on solitary confinement placements by Saturday.
“The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision raises important legal, policy and operational issues,” said Scott Bardsley, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, in an e-mail. “The decision makes statements on the law, including the Charter, that have impacts beyond the case at hand. It is important that we have the best guidance possible, and for this reason, Canada is seeking leave to appeal.
In court filings, the government implies that imposing a 15-day cap at any time – and especially doing so by this weekend – would throw penitentiaries into a state of chaos. In an affidavit filed with the interim stay motion, Julie Blasko, the warden of Joyceville Institution in Kingston, states that 15 days would not give staff enough time to adequately assess potentially dangerous new inmates before having to turn them loose from isolation cells and place them among other prisoners.
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