Videos obtained by CBC News show teens in two Saskatchewan youth detention facilities being forced into a full-body restraint called the Wrap, sometimes for hours. Experts and the people who've endured the device say it can cause lasting psychological trauma.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 12:12 PM CT | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Finding out how many people in jail actually have COVID-19 is seen as critical to preventing the spread.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
A assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan is warning that the province s policy on COVID-19 testing in jails is inviting a massive outbreak.
The Saskatoon jail is the only centre where mass testing of staff and inmates has taken place.
The province says it will only test people in other correctional centres who show COVID-19 symptoms. Mass testing events were conducted at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre in late November as part of the overall outbreak management response after symptomatic staff and offenders in the general population tested positive for COVID-19, Ministry of Corrections and Policing spokesperson Noel Busse wrote in an email.
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