Prisoners' Rights

Issues in 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

News Release Rights Groups React to Prisoner Death in Custody; Call for Public Inquest and Immediate Release of Prisoners to Stop Dangerous Spread of COVID-19

Posted on April 17, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

Document Joint Call for Human Rights Oversight of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Patients' Rights, Poverty & Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Sex Workers' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter on the conditional and compassionate release of incarcerated people to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Posted on April 15, 2020

Topic: COVID-19, Prisoners' Rights

Type: Policy Submissions