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Patrick White The Globe and Mail April 20, 2017 Following a six-month investigation, Ontario’s Ombudsman has found that the province routinely flouts its own rules around solitary confinement in prisons, regularly losing track of how long prisoners have spent in the restrictive cells as well as why …

John Michael McGrath TVO.org April 24, 2017 The most important thing to know about last week's report from provincial Ombudsman Paul Dubé isn’t that he's highlighted the terrible state of Ontario’s correctional centres, their over-reliance on solitary confinement (officially known as segregation), …

Colin Perkel The Canadian Press April 20, 2017 TORONTO — Vulnerable inmates are being put at risk due to Ontario's highly flawed system of segregation, the province's ombudsman said Thursday. In a hard-hitting report, Paul Dubé says no one is properly tracking how long inmates are kept in solitary, …

Kristin Rushowy The Star April 20, 2017   Paul Dubé calls on provincial government to better track and monitor use of solitary confinement. The use of segregation in Ontario jails is full of “serious problems,” including a lack of accurate tracking and monitoring of prisoners, says the province’s …