by Web Master | Dec 17, 2021 | Submissions
Today, Prisoners’ Legal Services wrote to Correctional Service Canada Commissioner Anne Kelly asking for policy reform to prohibit correctional officers from cutting the clothes off people in prison, and preventing correctional officers from being present on living units in treatment centres, unless called in by health care staff. Click here to see the letter.
by J Metcalfe | Dec 9, 2021 | Aboriginal Prisoners, News, Submissions
Today, Prisoners’ Legal Services wrote to Premier Horgan calling on BC to fund initiatives for Indigenous-run alternatives to prison. Click here to see the letter.
by Web Master | Sep 10, 2021 | News, Submissions, Uncategorized
On September 2, 2021, Prisoners’ Legal Services presented to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. You can read our written submission here.
by J Metcalfe | Jun 23, 2021 | News, Submissions
On Friday June 18, 2021, Prisoners’ Legal Services made submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on CSC’s response to COVID-19, its implementation of Structured Intervention Units and sexual violence in federal prisons.
You can read our submission here.
by J Metcalfe | Nov 21, 2020 | Submissions
On June 6, 2020, Prisoners’ Legal Services made a submission to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. You can read our submission here.
by Web Master | May 3, 2019 | News, Submissions
Bill C-83 has undergone some amendments since we made our submissions to government in November, 2018. However, PLS is still concerned that the Bill does not take Canada’s use of isolation out of the United Nation’s definition of solitary confinement, and recent case law confirms that the Bill would not survive scrutiny under the Charter. The Bill is now before the Senate. You can read our submissions to the Senate committee reviewing Bill C-83 here.
