The human rights
organizations are keeping the Canadian prisoners in a state of total being
forgotten and covering up the infamous methods of torture practiced by the
workers of the Minister of Correctional Services. The
intention of the government is to use the torture of hell, to traumatize and re-traumatize
convicted prisoners, victims of
the state persecution, people who have fallen under the cracks of immigration
legislation, and uncountable vulnerable victims who are wrongly convicted.
The crimes against humanity, torture committed by the guards in the Canadian
jails remains crimes without punishment. Due to the corruption of the Justice System the
jails tortures are enjoying complete impunity.
"The system not only failed Adam Capay. It buried
him alive" - Michael's essay
The United States has
Guantanamo Bay. Ontario has the Thunder Bay Jail
witnessed similar acts of sadism and brutality at
the West Detention Centre.
Not much
difference, really, when it comes to solitary confinement and the application
of a torture technique.
An innocent man
had been locked up in a tiny cell in that institution for four years.
To be clear: he had not had a trial, he had not been convicted of
anything, he had not been sentenced for a crime. In the eyes of the law,
he is an innocent man. And he had been locked up in solitary confinement
for four years.
The light in his
cell was on 24 hours a day, a torture technique used to destabilize
prisoners inGuantanamo Bay. (Research Every
Friday at the West Detention Centre)
The young man's name is Adam Capay.
He is a 24-year-old Aboriginal of the Lac Seul First Nation in Northwestern
Ontario. In 2012, at age 19, he was serving time in the Thunder Bay
Correctional Centre. There was a violent confrontation with another inmate. The
man died and Mr. Capay was charged with
first degree murder.
Mr. Capay
had been held in solitary without a trial for 52 months. This is 100 times
longer than the threshold the United Nations considers torture — 15 days.
On top of which, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a delay of 30
months or longer between being charged and being tried is a violation of an
accused's rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Witnessed at the West Detention Centre
Mr. Capay's agony calls to mind the tragic
story of Edward Snowshoe, a young Aboriginal inmate in Edmonton who hanged
himself in 2010 after 162 days in isolation.
In an investigation following his death, a
report made it clear that physical isolation increases the risk of suicidal
behaviour in people with mental disorders. Mr. Capay's ordeal would have gone
unnoticed if it hadn't been for a courageous jail guard who raised the
situation with the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission,
who was touring the jail.
For full information contact the Capitan Richards
from The West Detention Centre
To its
everlasting credit, The
Globe and Mail editorial board
has excoriated the segregation system, as it had done earlier in the Edward
Snowshoe case. The paper said the charges against Mr. Capay should be stayed
because of the unconscionable delay in bringing him to trial.
By mid-week, the
public outrage reached a fever pitch, especially after it was learned that the
provincial cabinet knew all about Mr. Capay's torment. On Thursday, he was
moved to a regular holding cell, but without a guarantee that he wouldn't be
sent back to solitary.
White clothes for segregation (West Detention
Centre)
The public outcry has
been encouraging. There have been online petitions and blogs screaming for the young man's release 
