{"id":70240,"date":"2020-09-09T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-blair-orders-prison-data-to-be-turned-over-but-does-the-data-even-exist-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-09T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:11:04","slug":"bill-blair-orders-prison-data-to-be-turned-over-but-does-the-data-even-exist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-blair-orders-prison-data-to-be-turned-over-but-does-the-data-even-exist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill Blair orders prison data to be turned over, but does the data even exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill Blair orders prison data to be turned over, but does the data even exist?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he has ordered Correctional Service Canada to hand over data to an independent panel reviewing its practises, nearly a year after the panel first requested the information. But new documents from the corrections agency reveal it may be failing to accurately collect the data altogether.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Maclean\u2019s<\/em>, Blair vows that \u201cwe are working very hard to make sure that we are able to provide that information and access to what the panel needs before they would consider continuing their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony Doob, the former head of the panel, says he still hasn\u2019t heard from Correctional Services and has not been convinced to continue his work. \u201cI need to know that we can actually do our work,\u201d he told Maclean\u2019s<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Last month, the panel tapp<\/a>ed by the Trudeau government to review the implementation of its Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) was disbanded. Its scathing final report pointed to a lack of cooperation from Blair and Correctional Services, which rendered the panel \u201cpowerless to accomplish the job that it was set up to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new SIUs were supposed to replace an existing solitary confinement regime, which courts in Ontario and British Columbia called unconstitutional and, possibly, torture<\/a>. Yet when Doob and his panel tried to analyze whether the new units were complying with the court orders and a new legal regime, they were stonewalled.<\/p>\n

Doob says the information is crucial to the implementation of these units and that \u201cthe bulk, or all of the data, that we\u2019re asking for is stuff they should want for their own purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But Correctional Services was unable to turn over the necessary data before the panel\u2019s appointment ended in August. It has yet to offer a timeline on when it might supply the statistics.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Correctional Services posted a request for information to the Canadian government\u2019s procurement platform, seeking companies capable of updating its offender management system. The system, which tracks every inmate in custody, was implemented in the early 1990s and last updated in 2002.<\/p>\n

The system governs just about every part of Canadian prisons, and is responsible for tracking the accommodations and mental health status of inmates. It is also the system that monitors inmates placed in the Structured Intervention Units.<\/p>\n

Correctional Services first identified the need to update the system in 2015. Today, the database is strained, the document reveals. The systems to input and check crucial information on inmates, including their risk of suicide, \u201care manual, cumbersome, redundant and open to potential human error in data entry.\u201d Other indicators, such as social<\/a> history, are \u201cnot well integrated into the overall process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Correctional Services also notes that, on several fronts including inmate discipline, the process is \u201ccumbersome and relies on paper and humans to ensure that information is gathered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doob says that while their computer systems may be \u201cnot ideal,\u201d that technology<\/a> is no excuse. \u201cThey do lots of research themselves using their old system to get data. And, as I\u2019ve said many times, if they truly cannot get the data for the panel, that means that they don\u2019t know what is happening, in a systematic way, in their institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Often, the only recourse for inmates to contest the conditions of their confinement is to file a grievance. As Correctional Services notes in the procurement documents, the \u201coffender grievance process is approximately 90 per cent paper based. This process has resulted in delays in processing offender grievances from the 60-80 day policy prescribed timeframes to up to three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The service did provide a batch of files to the panel in May but, Doob says, the tables were unusable, inaccurate and essentially worthless for his study. For example, he says, the data noted when an inmate had a mental health issue\u2014but not whether it was noted before, during or after their stay in the Structured Intervention Unit. The service employee responsible for data analysis admitted the information was essentially worthless, Doob says.<\/p>\n

Maclean\u2019s<\/em> asked Correctional Services about deficiencies in their inmate tracking system, but has yet to receive a response.<\/p>\n

Blair acknowledges that \u201cCorrection Services Canada struggled to collect and then make available the information in a timely way.\u201d The panel first alerted Blair to its issues obtaining data in mid-March, then filed an interim report, noting \u201cthis panel has not been allowed to do its work\u201d on July 23, and filed its final report on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until the details of the report were released by Vice<\/a> on Aug. 26 that Blair\u2019s office responded. The day after, Blair called Doob to discuss next steps.<\/p>\n

Asked why he didn\u2019t intervene sooner, Blair didn\u2019t answer. \u201cWhen it was brought to my attention, I immediately gave direction that the information was to be collected and made available to the panel,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Doob says that, even if Correctional Services produces the data, he\u2019s not sure he\u2019ll rejoin the panel. He wants assurances that he\u2019ll be able to properly review the service\u2019s practises, including on-the-ground access to the new cells. \u201cI\u2019ve heard zero from CSC,\u201d he reports.<\/p>\n

Zilla Jones, a Winnipeg-based lawyer and a fellow member of the panel, has clients who have been placed in the Structured Intervention Units at the Stony Mountain penitentiary in Manitoba. She says the upgrades to some of the cells have been limited to \u201ccosmetic\u201d changes, such as a new coat of paint and some posters.<\/p>\n

In a series of court rulings declaring the old system unconstitutional, the courts of appeal in Ontario and British Columbia ruled that inmates must be given more than two hours outside their cell per day. As part of the new Structured Intervention Units, the Trudeau government vowed that 20 hours per day would be the maximum amount of time per day that inmates would be locked up.<\/p>\n

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Correctional Service Canada has locked some inmates\u2014especially those who are awaiting tests for the virus, or who exhibit symptoms\u2014in the Structured Intervention Units for upwards of 23 hours a day.<\/p>\n

Blair disagrees that doing so has run afoul of the courts\u2019 rulings. \u201cThat was not for the purposes of either administrative or disciplinary segregation,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was medical isolation for those who were ill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that Correctional Services has not been collecting data on those put in these units, Doob and the panel have questioned if Ottawa even knows whether the new law is being followed.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Blair is confident. \u201cThe law is explicit, in that it eliminates the administrative and disciplinary segregation in those institutions,\u201d Blair says. \u201cWe have eliminated [solitary confinement].\u201d
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