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| Canadian Prison Keeps Woman In Solitary For Unlawful Time |
| By theprovince.com |
| Published: 03/08/2011 |
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The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says a 24-year-old woman has unlawfully spent over three years in an isolation cell in an Abbotsford prison. On Monday, BCCLA litigation director Grace Pastine said a constitutional challenge seeking to "drastically reform" the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons was launched in B.C. Supreme Court in the form of a civil claim on behalf of the woman, Bobby Lee Worm. The BCCLA says Worm has been confined up to 23 hours a day in a 10-by-8-foot cell for months at a time -and prison authorities don't have to seek approval. Worm, a First Nations woman originally from Saskatchewan, committed robberies to support her drug habit and suffers mental illnesses related to physical and sexual abuse in childhood, Pastine says. Read More. |
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