In the last parliament, our government passed C-83 to address solitary confinement with new and supposedly improved “structured intervention units”, but a recent report found that 10% of inmates in these units continue to actually be in what we know to be solitary confinement and worse, for long enough to meet the UN’s definition of torture.
That report was authored by two professors and criminologists, Ryerson’s Jane Sprott and the University of Toronto’s Anthony Doob, and on this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Doob to discuss solitary confinement in Canada.
Professor Doob is recognized as a long-time leading scholar in criminology, and he was also appointed in 2019 by then Minister Ralph Goodale to serve as the chairperson of the Structured Intervention Unit Implementation Advisory Panel.
Solitary confinement in Canada with Anthony Doob