Thunder Bay inmate out of segregation after four years in pre-trial custody
Posted Oct 27, 2016 06:01:06 AM.
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TORONTO – An inmate who has been held in segregation for the past four years at a Thunder Bay, Ont., jail has been moved to a regular cell.
Ontario Correctional Services Minister David Orazietti says Adam Capay is now in a standard cell, and unlike the previous Plexiglas cell where he spent the past 52 months in segregation, the lights can be dimmed.
Orazietti says the 23-year-old Capay now has access to a day room, telephone and television, but he does not have a cell mate and he will be kept separate from the general population.
The minister says it’s his understanding that Capay would rather be in the new cell than be transferred to another institution while he awaits trial in connection with the 2012 death of another inmate.
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Orazietti admits there is an “over-reliance on segregation in the correctional system,” but says inmates can ask to be held in isolation to protect themselves.
New Democrat critic Jennifer French says the Supreme Court has ruled a “reasonable delay” in getting to trial should be no more than 30 months.
