CBA Resolution on Solitary Confinement

The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Council passed a resolution on August 13, 2015, against the overuse of solitary confinement in Canada.
Omar Ha-Redeye addressed Council to modify the wording of the resolution, which was ultimately passed.

The text of the resolution concludes:

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Canadian Bar Association urge the federal, provincial and territorial governments to adopt or amend legislation and policies to clearly restrict and regulate the use of solitary confinement, administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation and other forms of separate and isolated confinement in Canadian correctional institutions and create effective enforcement mechanisms to ensure those restrictions are consistently followed throughout the country.

Omar Ha-Redeye at the CBA Council

See also the report by the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, and the related news coverage.