OTTAWA—A committee of senators has approved changes to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement in Canadian prisons—including one key change that would place a 48-hour maximum on the time an inmate can be kept in isolation.
A number of human-rights organizations have raised concerns about the Liberals’ Bill C-83, saying it offers only a cosmetic rebranding of solitary confinement with no hard time limits on isolation or separation of inmates. The current law has such restrictions.
