🇨🇦 After Canada stopped using solitary confinement, it made an exception for these prisoners

They abolished solitary confinement the way Ottawa abolishes everything: by changing the label and keeping the practice. According to the reported details, observation cells and dry cells meet the international definition of solitary, can run indefinitely, and come with no immediate means of appeal. So the humane progressive state did not end isolation. It buried it under bureaucracy, euphemisms, and managerial talking points about oversight.

The numbers tell the real story. Observation-cell use rose from 859 in 2018 to 1,316 in 2024, while dry-cell use jumped from 160 in 2022 to 291 in 2024. That is what liberal governance looks like in practice: grand moral posturing in public, harsher off-the-books reality in institutions. Even the same system that chants equity now presides over a surge in Indigenous placements and shrugs about culturally responsive interventions. Translation: more therapy-speak, more administrative deceit, same coercive state. Canada did not solve a prison problem here. It exposed the Trudeau-era habit of ruling by slogan while the machinery gets uglier behind closed doors.

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