Category: Canadian prisons

Transgender Prisoners Shouldn’t Be in Canadian Women’s Prisons: Report

February 10, 2023
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Incarcerated women are far more likely than men to have experienced sexual abuse in their lives, and having male-bodied inmates share their private space is retraumatizing, says a report published this week by the MacDonald Laurier Institute. In Canada, men who don’t genuinely identify as women can also say they do, says April Kitzul, a…

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Researchers Flag Increase in COVID 19 Cases in Canadian Prisons, Jails

January 11, 2021
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OTTAWA—Researchers are sounding an alarm about COVID-19 cases in Canadian prisons and jails, saying the numbers in recent weeks have surpassed the total during the first nine months of the pandemic. The researchers say that from March to the end of November, there were 1,864 reported novel coronavirus cases among prisoners and jail staff in…

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