Inmates speak out against crime bill

Inmates at Ontario provincial jails have expressed outrage that the federal government si enacting the first measures of Bill C-10.

According to rabble.ca the measures were enacted one day before Prisoners' Justice Day. Inmates claim that the bill will make prisons more crowded and the prison system less about justice than it is now.

Provincial jails in Ontario don't have the functional protections for human rights the federal ones do. Close to seventy percent of Ontario provincial inmates aren't convicts but those waiting for bail or deportation.

Inmates go on a 24-hour hunger strike to honour Prisoners' Justice Day. This also commemorates an inmate who died from inhumane conditions in 1974.

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