"ATI records show B.C.'s Kent Institution issued 35 modified routine notices in six months, restricting some units to as little as 10 minutes out of their cells a day. Only four used the word lockdown": www.thecanadareport.ca/kent-institu...

Kent Institution: 35 Modified Routines in Six Months

Records from Kent Institution show 35 modified routine notices between December and May, with some units limited to 10 minutes out of cell.

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Behind the Reporting: @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social reflects on why it’s essential to tell prisoners’ stories ijb.utoronto.ca/ijb-updates/...

Behind the Reporting: Why it’s essential to tell prisoners’ stories - Investigative Journalism Bureau

Prisoners are not popular. There is a tendency to assume that the people who wind up behind bars are bad guys who’ve done bad things and deserve bad things.  Fallacies behind this assumption aside, wh...

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Excellent reporting by the IJB on Canada’s growing use of prison isolation.

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Officially, Canada has no solitary confinement. But an @ijbstories.bsky.social probe reveals increases in the use of "observation cells" and "dry cells," putting more prisoners in conditions that meet the international definition of solitary. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...

20 organizations have signed and released an open letter today expressing grave concern with a decision by Corrections Canada to restrict access to medications commonly used to treat depression, ADHD, and other conditions for people in federal prisons. Read the letter here: tinyurl.com/5kytrh48

Today, on Prisoners' Justice Day, we remember the people who have lost their lives to the prison system, and hold their families, friends, loved ones, and communities in our hearts. 1/2

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Indigenous governments, organizations and legal aid clinic rebuke Canada for mass incarceration of Indigenous Peoples – call for funding and authority to Indigenous governments and organizations. More here: tinyurl.com/mrz6nwrt

Prisoners deserve more information about use-of-force incidents - read the opinion piece on the recent use of force JR filed with support from PLS here: tinyurl.com/udbwa9ee

Opinion: Prisoners deserve more information about use-of-force incidents

A new lawsuit seeks to change the way Correctional Service Canada discloses reviews of when force is used

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A revised version of understanding Correctional Service Canada‘s new Opioid Agonist Treatment policy information for federally incarcerated people pamphlet is available here: tinyurl.com/3pxkcme3

Prisoners' Legal Services@bcprisonjustice.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Revised link here: tinyurl.com/mu3tk7c4

NEWS RELEASE: 2 people w/ lived experience of incarceration filed a case in Federal Court against CSC, challenging the agency’s practice of withholding results of internal reviews when prison officers use force against incarcerated people. More here: tinyurl.com/4m3x3wbb

80+ civil society leaders from faith, labour, enviro, legal, academic & arts communities are standing together for human rights and reconciliation – calling on #BCgov to recommit to implementing not amending #DRIPA. Read the statement: www.wcel.org/DeclarationAct #bcpoli #IndigenousRights

CSC recently changed OAT medications available to people in prisons. Read more about what that means for people in federal prisons here: tinyurl.com/45jpwrwa

PLS, with other orgs, made a joint submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissioner regarding telecommunications systems and services in correctional facilities. More here: tinyurl.com/sxwrc6np

Canada's Correctional Investigator released it's 2024-2025 annual report today and found it was "abundantly clear that CSC is fundamentally ill-equipped to provide long-term mental health care to individuals with serious mental illness". Read the full report here: tinyurl.com/mszs9zm9

Great reporting by The Tyee about the mice infestation issues at VIRCC and the internal and external advocacy efforts led by incarcerated people. www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

A Prison Besieged by Mice | The Tyee

Built to keep people in, Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre can’t keep rodents out.

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Attention social justice and human rights lawyers: PLS is hiring for two positions! Apply by Sept 15, 2025: tinyurl.com/3kbjywpn

Aug 10, 2025 marks 50 years since the first Prisoners’ Justice Day was observed in 1975, when people incarcerated at Millhaven Inst. organized a work and hunger strike to memorialize the death of Eddie Nalon. PLS mourns all those who have lost their lives to the prison system.

PLS is hiring a Racial Justice Advocate – apply by Aug 1! prisonjustice.org/pls-is-hirin...

On June 19, 2025, Prisoners’ Legal Services presented to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services - read our submission here: tinyurl.com/4vphyn5a

PLS, represented by Alina Chekh, John Trueman, and Danielle Wierenga of Allen / McMillan Litigation Counsel, is at the Supreme Court of Canada today. More on the case and live webcast link at: