Correctional Service Canada

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has certified a class-action lawsuit alleging that Canadian authorities illegally strip searched federal inmates hundreds of thousands of times over three decades.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission says Canada needs an independent public inquiry to address serious issues of sexual violence and coercion in federal prisons for women.

Indigenous and Black federal inmates in Canada experience more use of force than any other racial group, the country's correctional investigator reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022.

Experts and advocates are calling for governments to release some inmates in provincial jails and federal prisons as outbreaks of COVID-19 driven by the infectious Omicron variant spread through the country's correctional facilities.

Independent reviews of the hundreds of inmates placed in segregation over the past year found only a handful were inappropriate, new government data indicate.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Canada's federal prisons have been declared over, and staff and visitors are preparing for a" new normal" that could be in place for years.

Police continue to search for a convicted murderer who escaped from custody at a minimum security federal facility north of Montreal last week.

Ontario's top court has asked the federal government for more information before deciding whether Canada's segregation laws will become invalid next month.

The father of a raped and murdered eight-year-old girl said on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, the transfer of one of her killers to a prison "healing lodge" has sparked widespread anger and needs to be reversed, while the federal government said it would review the decision.

A Regina woman who spent 3-1/2 years in solitary confinement cried as she recalled how a spiritual ceremony led by a First Nations elder helped her through difficult times at a B.C. prison.

Canada's correctional service continued to use indefinite solitary confinement for prisoners despite decades of policy-reform recommendations and a call for change from the prime minister.

British Columbia's newly ramped-up program, known as Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST), provides access to two synthetic opioid substitution drugs known as Suboxone and methadone.

Canada's prison service faced 1,200 legal actions at the end of last March — a figure the federal prison ombudsman says is enough to keep an entire law firm busy.