—Station: In the Eighteenth NewsWatch that moved at 20:20 Eastern Time, please replace the item slugged “Solitary-Confinement” with the following:(Fixes line 3 to say the Matsqui Institution is in Abbotsford, not Agassiz.) —(Solitary-Confinement)A British Columbia man says his son was in a “fragmented” state of mind just days before he hanged himself while in solitary confinement. Robert Roy testified today at a trial focused on alleged infringements of the rights of segregated inmates. His son Christopher used a ligature to kill himself at the medium-security Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford in June of 2015. The B-C Civil Liberties Union and the John Howard Society of Canada have launched a constitutional challenge of the country’s solitary confinement regime.

Source: National Post July 06, 2017 00:56 UTC