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Security trumps mental health care in our prisons
A short interview with Howard Sapers
People First Radio 
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Uploaded: 2 Oct, 2009
Recording Date: 1 Oct, 2009
Recording Location: Nanaimo, B.C.
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Language: English
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Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: Security trumps mental health care in our prisons
Description: Canada’s federal correctional investigator, Howard Sapers, has released a report detailing the Correctional Service of Canada’s ongoing dealings with mentally ill prisoners.
The investigator said that “security practices continue to trump clinical needs in the care and custody of offenders with mental health problems.� Mr. Sapers had earlier chronicled the systemic failures that led to the death, by suicide, of 19-year-old inmate Ashley Smith in a Kitchener, Ontario prison cell on October 19, 2007.
Host(s): Kevin Midbo, Jan Coleman
Featured Speakers/Guests: Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada
Credits: People First Radio is an initiative of Columbian Centre Society and broadcast on CHLY 101.7 FM community/campus radio in Nanaimo, B.C.
Comments: The opnions expressed are not necessarily those of Columbian Centre Society or Radio Malaspina Society.
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Topic:
News
Type:
Interview
Politics Health > Mental Health |
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