Prisoners' Rights

Issues in Prisoners' Rights

• Solitary Confinement

Document Letter Raising Concerns About Potential Impact on Habaes Corpus Applications in Nova Scotia

Posted on April 13, 2021

Topic: Access to Justice, Administrative, Democratic Rights, Discrimination, Due Process, Human Rights, Immigration, Prisoners' Rights, Sentencing

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Protect prisoners against COVID-19

Posted on January 21, 2021

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

News Release Press Release: Prisoner Challenges Law that Authorizes Extreme Form of Solitary Confinement 

Posted on November 9, 2020

Topic: Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court of Canada Rules Law Abolishing Peremptory Challenges is Constitutional  

Posted on October 8, 2020

Topic: Due Process, Prisoners' Rights

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA at Supreme Court of Canada to Fight for Jury Diversity  

Posted on October 6, 2020

Topic: Due Process, Prisoners' Rights

Document COVID-19 and Conditional Releases from Federal Prisons

Posted on July 16, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

Type: Handbooks and Resources

News Release Rights Groups Conclude Solitary Confinement Cases at Supreme Court of Canada

Posted on May 27, 2020

Topic: Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

Document Ramadan Accommodations for Muslim Prisoners at OCDC

Posted on May 7, 2020

Topic: Discrimination, Prisoners' Rights, Religion

Type: Policy Submissions

News Release Thirty-Eight Rights Groups Call on BC’s Chief Coroner to Direct Immediate Public Inquest into Death in Corrections Custody

Posted on April 28, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

News Release Rights Groups Pleased with Government Decision to Abandon Solitary Confinement Appeal

Posted on April 21, 2020

Topic: Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement