Active COVID-19 cases at the provincial jail in Burnside are down to 11. The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility has had an outbreak since late-December, and Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner there have now been a total of 140 cases at the jail. “As of Jan. 21, there are 11 active […]
More than half of prisoners at Burnside jail have had COVID-19
More than half of the prisoners at the Burnside jail have had COVID-19, and the outbreak isn’t over. “As of Jan. 13, the cumulative case count involving persons in custody at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility is 128,” Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner in an email Thursday. The prison population […]
Here’s what COVID looks like in jail
COVID-19 cases in the Burnside Jail (Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility) reached 82 on Friday, and I’m told there are now over 100 prisoners infected. Here’s how prisoners describe conditions in the jail. According to men incarcerated in the facility, sheriffs have replaced correctional officers as the jail struggles to meet the staffing complement. These […]
What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?
Morning File, Monday, January 10, 2022
News 1. Omicron is testing Nova Scotia’s hospitals Jennifer Henderson digs into the effects of the current COVID-19 wave on the province’s hospitals, looking not just at those hospitalized with COVID-19, but also larger effects on the system. Her lead gets right to the point: The latest wave of COVID is putting pressure on every […]
82 prisoners at Burnside jail have COVID-19
There are now 82 cases of COVID-19 at the provincial jail in Burnside. Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn confirmed the new total at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in an email to the Halifax Examiner on Friday. “None are in hospital. There are no cases in the women’s unit. As we mentioned previously, several […]
Housing: party for a few, crisis for the rest
Morning File, Wednesday, January 5, 2022
News 1. Woman claims in lawsuit she was repeatedly sexually abused by cops while in protection from sexual trafficking as a teen Zane Woodford reports on a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was sexually abused as a teen by officers from the Halifax police and the RCMP. The woman, identified only as “X.Y.,” […]
“A crisis that hits any part of the world or segment of society also affects us”
Morning File, Tuesday, June 22, 2021
News 1. At the time of Corey Rogers’ death, HRP had no policy on spit hoods, and officers had no training in using the hood place on him Zane Woodford reports on the first day of the Police Review Board hearing into the conduct of the three officers who arrested Corey Rogers in June 2016. […]
Vile video taken in Nova Scotia jail and posted to social media humiliates woman prisoner
A vile video taken by a guard inside a Nova Scotia jail and that was shared on social media violates a female prisoner’s privacy and makes disparaging comments about her medical condition. The Halifax Examiner was provided the 20-second video clip by a person who captured it on the SnapChat app. The video was posted […]
Prisoners, acting mostly on their own, are changing the legal landscape of Nova Scotia’s jails
Today, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Kevin Coady published a decision, saying that the way two prisoners at the Burnside Jail are being held in solitary confinement is unfair, and he wants the jail administrators to address the situation, and if they don’t within 14 days, he wants to see the prisoners in court, potentially […]
A case of gangrene raises health concerns at the East Coast Forensic Hospital
People in the mental health community who are close to family members of a 45-year-old man are speaking out after the man was admitted to hospital with gangrene in his stomach. The patient, who lives with schizophrenia, has been in and out of the East Coast Forensic Hospital for the past 20 years. Family members […]
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