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| Canadian prisoner health complaints system better than US, but still spotty |
| By cmaj.ca |
| Published: 02/21/2013 |
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Though the system for handling health care complaints from prisoners in the Canadian correctional system is far from perfect, inmates are free to raise as many concerns as they like. Prisoners in the United States can also complain, though they have to go to much greater lengths to be heard. "Most prisoner complaints [in the United States] about health care are sort of specific to the individual prisoner; a prisoner is unhappy with the care he's receiving for a particular condition, or he or she runs out of medication. A lot of times the complaints are sort of to no avail unfortunately," says Gabe Eber, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project. Eber says that because of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a US federal law enacted in 1996 that aimed to decrease the amount of prisoner hearings in the court system, the practice of processing and appealing complaints has become very adversarial and can take months to complete in certain cases. Read More. |
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