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What's Going on at Ontario's Correctional Institutions?

What's Going on at Ontario's Correctional Institutions?

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)

May 15, 202528m 16s

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Show Notes

The Maplehurst Correctional Complex is known as Ontario's deadliest and most overcrowded jail. In recent weeks, it's come under increased scrutiny after video footage from 2023 was released showing inmates facing collective punishment from guards in an incident one judge called a "gross display of power." Is Maplehurst an aberration or a sign of system-wide challenges? What kind of action could and should the province take? To discuss, we're joined by Demar Kemar Hewitt Executive director and general counsel at the Black Legal Action Centre Lee Chapelle Former inmate and president of Canadian Prison Consulting Brendan Kennedy Reporter on the Toronto Star's investigative team and Andrea Monteiro Founder of Ethical Correctional Consulting Inc., former director of corrections in the Yukon, and former manager of the Independent Review of Ontario Corrections

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Topics

Maplehurst Correctional ComplexMaplehurst jailjailsprisonsToronto Starovercrowdingcorrectional reformsolicitor general