Human rights apparently don count inside Whitehorse Correctional Centre. That, anyhow, is an easy to draw conclusion, based on the Yukon government absurd decision to bar the Yukon Human Rights Commission from investigating inmate complaints at the jail. The Justice Department stated rationale for this decision is, quite simply, preposterous. It points to part of the Yukon Human Rights Act that exempts the commission from investigating complaints already handled by other review processes. When this bit of law was proposed and debated back in 2008, it was envisioned as one of several quick fixes to procedural log jams that the commission faced. The purpose was never to tie the hands of investigators; it was to allow them to dismiss cases best handled, in their judgement, elsewhere. That much is clear from the legislative report that proposed the change, and the ensuing legislative debates. You don have to be a genius to see why justice officials would want to block human rights officials from the prison. The subsequent report is almost sure to make them look bad. And, if there a standard operating procedure up at the jail replica tag heuer Formula 1 Chronograph, it to keep such business locked away in the dark. The human rights commission has warned that it considers the treatment of mentally ill inmates within the prison one of its most pressing concerns. The public complaints of several inmates over the past few months give a good idea why. All suffer from mental illness, and all say the they have received is long spells in solitary confinement with little medical supervision. This is, of course, only a recipe for making such inmates even more mentally unstable. What more, leaving mentally unstable inmates in the hole for prolonged periods increases the likelihood of harm not only to themselves http://www.asmallheaven.net/replica-breilting-certifie-disocunt-uk.html, but to the public, as nearly all inmates will at some point once again walk the streets. (Justice officials refuse to say much of anything about the complaints of inmates, under the trumped up pretense of respecting privacy rights. But government reports indicate that inmates in solitary receive little psychiatric care.) The government points to the Investigations Standards Office, or ISO, which reviews inmate complaints, as one reason why they see no need for human rights investigators snooping around. Yet the ISO is only able to overturn the treatment plans of individual inmates for broader issues, it can only issue recommendations. That helps explain why the ISO is in the midst of its third review of the jail segregation policies. It obviously doesn have the tools to get the job done. Similarly, the ombudsman another avenue the government points to also lacks the power to compel the government to change its practices. The human rights commission, meanwhile, does have the ability to order jail wide policy changes. What more, the findings of the commission are public, whereas the ISO reports are kept secret the way that justice officials like things kept. At the heart of the jail dysfunction is the delusional notion clung to by officials that the facility is equipped to operate as a psychiatric hospital. Clearly, it not. To allay concerns about this, the Yukon government promised the courts several years ago that it would build secure facilities at Whitehorse General Hospital suitable for mentally ill inmates for short to intermediate stays. But that didn happen. Hospital and health officials now assert that these secure facilities are only to provide pressing, short term medical treatment to inmates, like when someone breaks an arm. That why a 74 year old man has been locked away in jail since May, after he was charged with mischief for disrupting a church service. His family pleads that he not have a criminal bone in his body, but he just gotten out of touch with reality. Because of mental illness replica tag heuer Carrera Calibre 16, he been deemed unfit to stand trial. So he gets a jail cell instead. It could take the review board another 45 days to decide what to do with him. That also why a mentally ill 19 year old, facing his first offence and found not criminally responsible within days of being picked up by police, had to sit in the general population of the jail for a month while he waited for a review board hearing. So here we have a government that is flouting human rights laws by refusing to allow independent investigators into the jail, and has broken its word to the judiciary about plans to improve the treatment of mentally ill inmates. Remind us, what country are we living in? Russia? Must Amnesty International start a letter writing campaign or something? Or could our political leaders perhaps show a bit of decency replica breitling Avenger, and end this nonsense? The signs are not promising. To date, Justice Minister Mike Nixon appears to be too busy attending comic book conventions and flipping hamburgers to answer queries on the matter. So, it looks like this will be another Yukon Party scandal to eventually be settled by the courts. In the meantime, nothing gets better inside the jail. Its quite obvious from your post that you seem to find Canadian prisons comparable to their US counter parts. This is obvious in your transition from speaking about the Yukon to speaking about the US. On this point your wrong. First of the facts. The Yukon has the lowest recidivism rates for first time offenders in Canada. Canada recidivism rate are quite a bit lower then the US. Part of the reason for these successes is that unlike US prison Canadian prison have cultural and educational treatment programs. This is particularly true in the Yukon where the majority of inmates are aboriginal and in an attempt to connect and help those individuals the government utilizes agreements with First Nations groups in order to ensure that program material is relevant and effective. The hard truth about recidivism is that a lot of people wont change in to successful members of society until such a time as they decide too. Try as you might you can force people to stop breaking the law. At best you can try to connect with them and help them develop tools that will give them the opportunity to make the right choices going forward. The key word here is opportunity. Also the Justice system doesn control societies view or criminals so even when they believe a individual has been rehabilitated when they are re introduced to society fake Emporio Armani, it often society who wont offer them jobs, still treats them as criminal, etc that causes them to commit another crime. As far as mental illness goes I agree more treatment options are needed however that said it should be made known that in a lot of case illness is used as an excuse. I mean how often is temporary insanity used as a defense. Also what qualifies today as a mental illness wasn considered such back in the day. Technically speaking depression is a mental illness and undoubtedly most inmates are depressed so does this mean that we require treatment for a mental illness. And if you think so, then I would suggest that all individuals have a right to this same treatment and since at least 10% of the population reports depression I think we can safely assume a mental health personnel shortage. You cant force people to go into the field. So any reasonable person comes back to where we currently are if you request it treatment for serious mental illness is available (even in jail). I wonder if the workers at the social services office, income assistance office at black and third ever feel like they are in a jail. The walkway between the SS office and the green building on black has a fence on both ends with barbed wire at the top. This was supposed to be in place so street people could not go between the buildings to maybe find shelter there from the wind, to rest for a moment because they may urinate or drink there we were told by management, people for biased judgmental reasons. No compassion or caring from management at SS for the people who are less fortunate, those they are in serve to, those who keep YG people employed. Before the gates this never took place, no one went in there to drink or anything but there were dog feces from an office dog. Not people! Those gates create a potential death trap because they get stuck, jammed all the time, for years and have for years but SS doesn care, it ignored. We told everyone from director McDonnell to past managers, supervisors, Yukon Employees Union etc but no one listened. Safety was never a concern with no Safety Committee and the Union did nothing. Take a picture for the newspaper Yukon News and put it beside the group home on the WCC grounds along side the new prison. Barbed wire is a form of control, a tangible thing utilized by the YG. How come employees are being locked into the workplace? I like comments such as they are better off here than in others places as if comparing in attempting to justify makes it right. That line always get me in how can people think like that. It could be worse so be happy you have a tv. It like the old jail is another one. And officers take pride in rehabilitating prisoners to be better citizens They are jailers, not Counselors, clergy, psychologists or social workers. They hold the keys and monitor behaviors and dole out punishments and praises but that is not making prisoners better citizens. Prisoners just learn how to function in jails and prisons to appease their jailers. The change most times is not ingrained but more fear based and people becoming This is where the Justice system fails prisoners to become good citizens because society fails children, youth, families and the ill by not stopping crime before it starts. We are a reactionary society. In regard to mentally incapacitated, they go through the Justice system because mental health services in the Yukon is lacking big time and all over N. America. Society use to lock up people in mental institutions but now they are locked out of mental health services and locked up in jails and prisons. The mentally incapacitated fall through the cracks of the systems based on societies failure to give them the right help they need in cutting services like what is happening at H in the Yukon so consequently they end up in jails and prisons. prisons and jails are businesses and government is a big business in the Yukon. In the United States, the privatization of prisons brings jobs to cities and towns, jobs are created so jailing people can be profitable. It like keeping poor people poor, generationally poor which means the system sustains itself, it keeps government workers employed working in social assistance and family children services with a steady income while people, mostly the poor languish in foster care as children, in poverty, in the youth justice system and then in adult jails and prisons. investigation should be done in social services at black 3rd building human rights violations against people on welfare by this Paz government under the Dictator(typo). Human rights violations are very many with the welfare people afraid to talk in fear of not getting welfare if they do talk. Control out if fear of no welfare then they are hungry no place to live to be cut off welfare. Big debts welfare people are in to government like thousands of hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars that will never be cleared by welfare people, it to high replica Breitling Transocean Chronograph, in debt to death while made poorer while living . Welfare people made poorer are suffering just audit financial an ask head of finance ann ask dictator(typo) where is money going in budgeting.? Where is it moved too for other programs like socially included office taking from poor to help poor? Treatments of people getting welfare if they are not liked is punishment in human rights That is human rights violation for some of us. No fair treatment, bias, prejudice and when Complaints made against people like supervisors nothing is ever done as kept hush hush silenced. Why do deputy minister mead an minister graham look away from dictator(typo)? SS keeps investigation out of doing audit but how can this be fore government to say no to government audit by dictator(typo). Independent is needed. Many questions but government refuse to answer to the people an taxpayers need to care about financial in government ann human rights problems because it could bee them someday who knows how life goes, it true like me. I never saw me to be poor but got injury so bad I lost my house then others things told to sell. All People could be poor before know it ann so sad. It could be you to. While I do agree that some inmates could use more in house psychiatric support, these inmates live way better than an inmate in any other provincial jail in canada. Are lucky enough to have their own cells with tv The corrections officers there take pride in being able to help rehabilite inmates in taking steps towards becoming better citizens. They show respect to inmates as they need to be shown respect in return. People like nehass put themselves in their own situations by being un cooperative. Remember while some people are in there for minor offences, other have committed sexual assaults against women and murdering innocent fathers. As far as I concerned they are getting treated too well. Yes, there is a need for care and treatment of mentally ill people in the Yukon, no question. They are being placed there by the courts. The jail is just doing it thing dealing with inmates not mental health patients. This needs to be changes by government. To me the jail was saying the inmate needs to go through the proper channels. Which if he has exhausted them then he goes to the Human rights commission. I find the reporting sensationalized and questionable. I laugh at the segregation issues because in comparison to the old jail this is not the same issue. The inmates do have the right to privacy from reporters poking into their case files. The only reason Nehass was naked at a video court appearance is because he was uncooperative. He is required to attend by the judge. 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