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Recommendation 20:
Amend the Adult Custody Policy to require managers to ensure all relevant video footage of a use of force has been preserved within 14 days (so that footage is not deleted).
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Recommendation 31:
Amend the Adult Custody Policy to require decontamination showers (unshackled and with soap, for as long as necessary for proper decontamination) and fresh clothing to be provided immediately. The decontamination process should be videotaped (with provisions made to ensure privacy is protected).
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Recommendation 44:
Amend s. 12(1) of the Correction Act to remove the authorization of force “to prevent property damage” and “to maintain custody and control of an inmate.”
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Recommendation 79:
Amend policy to require that post-use of force medical assessments include a determination of whether the prisoner has received clean clothing and bedding and has a clean cell.
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Recommendation 58:
Amend policy so that only healthcare staff can authorize and manage interventions to address self-harm and suicidality, including suicide smocks, observation cells and and Pinel restraints based on clinical need. Pinel restraints should only be used in psychiatric facilities.
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Recommendation 68:
Amend income and disability benefits assessments so that only relationships that display significant financial dependence or interdependence are relevant for the purposes of eligibility, and remove financial interdependence by default on the basis that a person indicates parental role for a child unless a spousal relationship can be established.
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Recommendation 4:
Always centre care, capacity, realistic timeframes, and meaningful responses when addressing the concerns of Indigenous employees, and only request those perspectives with the expressed consent of employees.
- Make culturally sensitive supports available to employees. Take every claim of harm seriously, and centre genuine concern towards healing and mediating those facets of the institutional culture. Never gaslight employees.
- Always consult from within as opposed to without the organization, putting less focus on tokenistic measures such as business consultants and more focus on the integration of anti-racist structures and cultures, and Black and Indigenous decolonial ideologies and peoples throughout workplaces.
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Recommendation 14:
Although the experience of racism in the use of status cards is near-universal amongst status First Nations, and the mention of status cards elicits overt and numerous racist responses in online forums, there is very little data collected, studies published, or indicators monitored about this experience. Increasingly, there is broad policy support for the collection and monitoring of race-based data to support equity and dignity for all persons. Future work pursuant to this study should continue, and specifically:
- Be a matter of focus of human rights offices and associated studies.
- Indicators and data collection about experience in the use of status cards, and outcomes data related to the experience of racism, should be embedded in surveying and performance monitoring at local, regional, provincial, and national levels, including by First Nations governments in their primary data collection and research projects. These should consider the unique experiences of LGBTQ2S+ persons as well as other groups that are experiencing intersecting and compounding forms of oppression and discrimination.
- Be tied to clear action plans and accountability for change.
- Be rooted in Indigenous data sovereignty.
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Recommendation 2:
Alternatively, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions should establish an independent Mental Health Advocate to monitor the performance of public services that impact people with mental health and substance use-related health issues, receive and act on systemic disability related complaints and protect the human rights of people living with illness who access services.
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Recommendation 146:
Allow the provincial Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to initiate its own systemic investigations or hearings, and shift investigations of misconduct within the jurisdiction of the Police Complaint Commissioner to investigations directly by the Commissioner.
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