Prisoners' Rights

Issues in Prisoners' Rights

• Solitary Confinement

Document BCCLA and JHSC v. AG of Canada: challenging solitary confinement in Canadian prisons

Posted on January 19, 2015

Topic: Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

Type: Legal Cases

Post Drug policy and human rights: concerns mounting

Posted on May 23, 2015

Topic: Anti-Prohibition, Drug Policy, Harm Reduction, HIV, Human Rights, Patients' Rights, Prisoners' Rights

News Release Media advisory: Supreme Court of Canada to rule in mandatory minimum cases

Posted on April 13, 2015

Topic: Criminal, Democratic Rights, Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Sentencing

Event Amnesty International UBC: Taking a Stand Against Torture Panel

Posted on February 16, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement, Torture

Event Inside Kingston Penitentiary: Conversation and book launch with Geoffrey James and Michael Jackson

Posted on February 2, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

Post Solitary confinement on trial

Posted on January 26, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

News Release Rights groups sue federal government over solitary confinement in Canadian prisons

Posted on January 19, 2015

Topic: Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights

Post Solitary Confinement: Out of Sight is not Out of Mind

Posted on December 11, 2014

Topic: Human Rights, Prisoners' Rights, Solitary Confinement

News Release BCCLA reacts to revelations of CBSA deaths in custody

Posted on November 5, 2014

Topic: CBSA, Civilian Oversight, Police Accountability, Prisoners' Rights

News Release BCCLA reacts to Coroner’s verdict in Lucía Vega Jiménez inquest

Posted on October 8, 2014

Topic: CBSA, Immigration, Police Accountability, Prisoners' Rights