Solitary Confinement in Canada’s Prisons: Time for Real Accountability

Canada prides itself on a global image as a human rights champion. Yet, behind high prison walls, rights violations take place with impunity. Canada has a solitary confinement problem, and it needs to get fixed.  Solitary confinement was the brainchild of penal reform advocates on both sides of the Atlantic, including Benjamin Franklin, Sir William Blackstone, and,