Ontario’s Ombudsman plans to look into how the province tracks and reviews inmates placed in solitary confinement.
Paul Dube says his office has received 175 such complaints since April.
Dube notes he made 28 recommendations back in May around the use segregation, noting then the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services was not properly reviewing and documenting cases.
His probe comes as the Ministry prepares to conduct a review of its own, appointing outgoing federal corrections investigator Howard Sapers to begin that work in January.
