Feds table bill to transform prisoner segregation
The Trudeau government tabled legislation on Oct. 16 to transform the way it separates inmates in federal correctional institutions from the general prison population.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the bill is the result of recent court decisions on administrative segregation as well as recommendations from a coroner’s inquest into the 2007 death of teenager Ashley Smith, who died by self-strangulation after spending more than 1,000 days in segregation.
