The Globe and Mail interviewed Ruth Elwood Martin, UBC’s director of the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education, for a story on the use of segregation in B.C. prisons.
The story comes after a complaint was filed with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia about the treatment of a prisoner in solitary confinement.
The Mandela Rules define several types of solitary confinement as potential torture, including segregating inmates with mental disabilities.
“I would imagine that most prison physicians are currently unaware of the UN’s new Mandela Rules, because these are quite recent,” said Martin who is also a former prison doctor.
