Prisoners advocates are asking a Federal Court to intervene in the case of a Dene man from northern Saskatchewan who they say has spent most of his adult life in segregation and is at risk of committing suicide.
Joey Toutsaint, who is 32 and a convicted dangerous offender, has spent more than 2,000 days in segregation while at different federal institutions, say court documents filed last week in British Columbia.
Prisoners' Legal Services, which provides legal aid to inmates, recently filed for an injunction asking that Toutsaint be transferred from the maximum-security Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert to the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, so he can receive one-on-one therapy and access to cultural practices."The purpose of the injunction really is to make sure he can stay alive until his human rights complaint can be resolved," said Nicole Kief with the B.
The Correctional Service of Canada would not comment specifically on Toutsaint's case, but spokeswoman Stephanie Stevenson did point to proposed legislation, tabled in October, to eliminate segregation. Other court documents say Toutsaint's father was incarcerated and his mother struggled with alcoholism. They say she was struck and killed by an impaired driver when Toutsaint was a teen.
Latimer said it's important to ensure people are protected, but added that inmates are entitled to health care. Prisoners can be transferred to a psychiatric hospital instead of being segregated.
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