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N.W.T. inmates spend months at a time in solitary
By cbc.ca- Sara Minogue
Published: 09/11/2014

Two men serving time at Yellowknife's North Slave Correctional Centre spent more than 19 months out of the past two and a half years in "administrative segregation," the Department of Justice's preferred term for solitary confinement.

One inmate on remand served a total of 576 days in isolation in 23 different stretches.

The other, who was serving a sentence at the time, was held in isolation for a total of 577 days, including one nearly eight-month stretch and another over seven months long.

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