Mr. MacDonald told The Globe and Mail this week the RCMP has appropriate policies on how to treat prisoners, but needs to improve how it ensures its officers and the guards they oversee are following these rules
The recently retired director of B.C.’s independent police watchdog says people with substance use disorders and other health problems would be safer if they were put in a new kind of secure health care facility instead of a jail after they were arrested.
He suggested that in many cases, society would be better served sending an addicted person accused of a crime to some type of secure health care facility, which is a key reform recommended by B.C.’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions would not say this week whether it will create a new type of facility for those accused of crimes while battling severe addictions and mental health problems, just that it is analyzing and evaluating different models of care as it works to improve the criminal justice system.
By Monday afternoon, she had gone more than a day without eating and had become incoherent, using “doctor” to refer to her guards, one of whom told the watchdog he was aware she was experiencing withdrawal and thought her behaviour was natural despite receiving no training on the subject. Elysia Wilson, one of Ms. Wilson’s four adult children, said her family wants an apology from the RCMP for letting their mother die alone, afraid and asking for help as well as an acknowledgment that their standards need to improve. The Wilsons also want a trained nurse or doctor to provideto any prisoners in any of B.C.’s dozens of detachments if they need it because they are intoxicated or going through withdrawal.
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