There is no dignity in prison - Jennifer Metcalfe Prisoners’ Legal Services

7 of the Charter • Human rights and health care Correctional Service Canada • There are about 14,000 people held in federal custody in Canada • CSC estimates its expenditures for 2022-23 at over $3 billion • 96% of federal corrections costs are attributable to custody • CSC employs almost as many staff to work inside prisons as there are people in custody! (13,215) • Health care staff represent on. [...] Tolerance for these behaviours, including use of vulgar, threatening and disrespectful language, conditioned how staff regarded and responded to inmates and contributed to the environment and dynamics that perpetuated and condoned group violence….” News Release: Latest Annual Report of the Correctional Investigator of Canada Tabled in Parliament, Dr. [...] He told me that he was frustrated, angry and couldn’t do nothing else but shout and cry.” “[My brother] said that the guards ‘pissed in a mop bucket’ and told him to mop his cell with the urine in the pail. [...] • Lockdowns • Restrictive Movement Routines • Observation cells • Solitary by another name: solitary-by-another-name-reporta/ Indigenous overrepresentation in isolation • In 2018 Indigenous people represented 44% of people in administrative segregation. [...] Symptoms of solitary confinement • Anxiety and stress • Depression and hopelessness • Anger, irritability and hostility • Panic attacks • Worsened pre-existing mental health issues • Problems with attention, concentration and memory • Paranoia • Poor impulse control • Social withdrawal • Outbursts of violence • Self-harm or suicide Failure to acknowledge harms CSC medical professionals fail to ack.