TAKE ACTION: Fatalities on Custody demand urgent attention
There have been four deaths in custody in Nova Scotia jails in the past year.
Last month the Nova Scotia Supreme Court declared ongoing conditions of detention at Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility (mass solitary confinement / “lockdowns”) to be illegal.
The deaths and the illegal conditions are deeply connected. Immediate action is required.
Over the next month, PATH Legal and the East Coast Prison Justice Society, supported by a coalition of health and prison justice organizations, will send to the government of Nova Scotia, and publish, four letters. Each letter will detail one problem, specified below, and provide solutions to the issues raised in these calls to action.
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