“The most uncomfortable aspect of eating disorders is death,” Laia Abril told me over the phone recently. The Spanish photographer was discussing her new book, The Epilogue—a photobook that chronicles a family’s grief over the death their 26-year-old daughter, Cammy Robinson, who suffered from bulimia. Read the rest of this story at New Republic…
On the RCMP’s YouTube channel, amid the public safety announcements and career ads, is a video titled “Peter’s story.” Added last week, the video tells the tale of Peter Neily, a constable who garnered attention a few years ago when he fired 30 shots at an armed suspect in B.C., killing him. Even though he was cleared of wrongdoing, Neily withdrew from family and friends and turned to alcohol. “This was me basically staying away from everyone, staying at home, staying out of everyone’s way and drinking myself to sleep,” he recalls in the video. Read the rest of this story at Canada.com…
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The government has faced widespread calls to limit its use of solitary confinement. The government rejected those calls.
The Canadian government has rejected widespread calls to place limits on solitary confinement in federal prisons, dismissing the recommendations of a high-profile inquest into the death of prisoner Ashley Smith. The Correctional Service of Canada published its long-anticipated response late Thursday to the coroner’s inquest jury, which released 104 recommendations a year ago aimed at improving mental-health care for prisoners. Read the rest of this story at The Globe and Mail…
Canada needs to end its “addiction” to solitary confinement in its prisons, and have judges review any use of segregation beyond short-term “timeouts” of three days or so, retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour says. Anything less would allow a destructive and unlawful practice to continue, she said. Read the rest of this story at The Globe and Mail…
