Reposted by Stephen Harrison
Officially, Canada has no solitary confinement.
But we found it uses confinement that mirrors solitary as defined under international rules on the most vulnerable prisoners - and it's using it more.
ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
ijb.utoronto.ca
Hidden solitary: Canada's growing use of prison isolation - Investigative Journalism Bureau
New data obtained by the IJB shows a dramatic rise in the use of observation and dry cells—a form of hidden solitary confinement in Canadian prisons that disproportionately impacts Indigenous inmates.
![B.C. police database misuse, substantiated complaints
2016: Vancouver PD officer “searched police databases for a purpose unrelated to duties as a police officer” and “improperly disclosed confidential information acquired from police databases to a member of the public”
2016: Transit Police officer “used the PRIME database system, without permission, to gather statistics for their master’s degree course”
2015: Transit Police officer “queried their tenant using police databases”
2015: New Westminster PD officer “used police databases to query one of [their] contractors and the licence plate of a vehicle being used by the contractors” and “disclosed [to a member of the property management company] that a vehicle being driven by one of the contractors was uninsured and that one of the contractors had a criminal record”
2015: Delta PD, three officers “conducted improper police database queries in relation to an off duty police officer’s call for assistance” and “improperly disclosed the information obtained”
2015: Abbotsford PD officer “accessed police databases for purposes unrelated to his/her duties as a police officer.”
2014: Delta PD officer “queried police databases by means of a mobile data terminal for a purpose unrelated to the performance of the officer’s duties”
2014: Delta PD officer “accessed the PRIME database for personal reasons”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ojtemkdgeywq2ua6fx7gcu/bafkreiackla4kywhszyocbn56e4je3thfzwieesqttu4rh4ybrtf64opta)
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