COVID-19: Curb jail populations in Nova Scotia, advocates urge
“Advocates for incarcerated people aren’t happy with the province’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“I am not disagreeing with following public health advice, I need to be extremely clear about that,” said Martha Paynter, a registered nurse and founder of Women’s Wellness Within, a non-profit organization that provides support to pregnant and new parents at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Centre in Burnside and the Nova Institution for Women in Truro.
“I am simply saying, we need to think about our order of operations here, so why isn't our first order of operations getting people out of Burnside? . . . So now we are going to have a population that is extremely vulnerable and extremely scared, stuck in a very high-stress environment without the relief of even access to volunteers.”
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