When he was released from jail last Oct. 22, Billy Strande had turned a corner.
The 31-year-old pledged never to end up behind bars again and to help troubled youth avoid the mistakes he had made.
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But within four weeks, his life was over. He hanged himself inside the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre less than 24 hours after he was arrested for breaching his parole conditions.
His devastated family wants answers. They say there was a fatal miscommunication between Billy and a parole officer that could easily have been resolved without sending him back to jail given his fragile mental health and earlier suicide attempts in prison.
Family demands answers after man kills himself in B C jail
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Protesters lined up outside the Rensselaer County jail Thursday morning to rail against the appearance of Matthew T. Albence, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Nearly three weeks after a COVID-19 outbreak spread through the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not been able to respond to a court order for a plan to distribute vaccines to at-risk individuals detained at the facility, as of March 2, 2021.Paul Buckowski / Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Matthew Albence, the acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, speaks during a press conference at the Rensselaer County Sheriff s office on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, in Troy, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
3 in 4 Bristol County inmates refuse vaccine, mirroring hesitancy among staff Published Tue Mar 02 2021 11:00:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Last May, a densely populated wing of a jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts erupted in violence amid growing tensions over coronavirus safety. Why are the jail s inmates now refusing the vaccine? by Ben Berke
In the past year, Covid has penetrated Bristol County’s jails on several occasions, spreading from staff members free to mingle in the outside world to inmates who sleep in bunk beds spaced only a few feet apart and transmit the disease behind bars.
An initial outbreak in May infected nearly 40 inmates and 30 staff members. Fear and confusion over quarantine protocols led to a violent conflict between the jail’s staff and a group of immigrants awaiting deportation. Infections spiked again during the winter holidays, when more than 100 staff members tested positive.
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Nearly two years after Ottawa declared an end to unlawful prisoner isolation tactics, federal prisons continue to practise solitary confinement and torture, according to the latest report from two government-appointed researchers.
Using data supplied by the Correctional Service of Canada, or CSC, criminologists Anthony Doob and Jane Sprott have examined how well the penitentiary system is conforming with new laws that grant isolated prisoners more time outside their cells to align with court decisions and international standards.
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