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Active COVID-19 cases drop at Burnside jail

January 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, COVID-19, COVID-19 in provincial jails

More than half of prisoners at Burnside jail have had COVID-19

January 14, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News Tagged With: Burnside jail, Burnside jail conditions, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, COVID-19, COVID-19 in prison, COVID-19 in provincial jails, Heather Fairbairn

What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

Morning File, Monday, January 10, 2022

January 10, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: #HalifaxExaminerSubscribe, Alan Shipnuck, Antonio Brown, Base rate fallacy, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, circus, clean coal, COVID-19, Dr. Nicole Boutilier, Elena Cremonese, Gary Burrill, green choice program, Halifax Common, Halifax Municipal Archives, Halifax Public Libraries, Heather Fairbairn, Jeff Pearlman, Jennifer Henderson, Michael MacDonald, modular housing, Muskrat Falls, New York Times crossword puzzle, Nova Scotia Power, Omicron, Owls Head, Paul Johnston, Rick Stroud, South Africa, Stephen Kimber, The Marshall Project, Tory Rushton, World Health Organization, X-ring ceremony, Zane Woodford, Zoom

Vile video taken in Nova Scotia jail and posted to social media humiliates woman prisoner

April 2, 2021 By El Jones and Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Bianca Mercer, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Dawna Ward, Department of Justice, diabetic low, Nova Scotia, privacy, SnapChat, video, woman prisoner

Prisoners, acting mostly on their own, are changing the legal landscape of Nova Scotia’s jails

August 7, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Andre Gray, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Claire McNeil, Dylan Gogan, Dylan Roach, East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS), El Jones, habeas corpus applications, Hanna Garson, Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden, Justice Gerald Moir, Justice Kevin Coady, Justice Peter P. Rosinski, lockdown, Maurice Pratt, Rae’heem Downey, Richard Verge, segregation in prisons, Solitary confinement

Whose deaths matter?

The Nova Scotia government has brought in legislation to create expert review panels to look into the deaths of those who die as a result of domestic violence as well as children who die in provincial care. The goal is to "turn tragedy into lessons learned and lives saved into the future." But Justice Minister Mark Furey refuses to extend the new law to include another vulnerable group: adults who die in provincial custody. Why not?

November 3, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Why do the Liberals continue to get it so wrong even when they seem to be trying to get it right? Early last month, for example, Justice Minister Mark Furey introduced legislation to have expert review committees examine deaths resulting from domestic violence as well as unexpected deaths involving children in the care of the...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Catherine Tully, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, East Coast Forensic Hospital, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Prisoners' deaths, Sheila Wildeman

Ramadan in jail: prisoners in Burnside are being denied the right to practice their religion

May 13, 2019 By El Jones Leave a Comment

Malik is calling from the jail asking for the numbers of any Muslims he can contact just to talk to, maybe hear some Quran from. The last time he prayed with community was during Ramadan last year, and since then, his requests for spiritual services have been denied. Last year, Muslim prisoners at Burnside (Central […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Asaf Rashid, Aya Al-Hakim, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Hanna Garson, Idil Abdillahi, Ramadan, Rana Zaman

Six public policy failures in one morning news recap

Morning File, Wednesday, November 14, 2018

November 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

November subscription drive Sorry to pester you again, but just a short note to say we’re in the middle of our annual subscription drive. The Halifax Examiner needs your money to make this work possible. Please subscribe. Subscription party details: Reserve Sunday, November 25 on your calendars. We have Bearly’s Tavern, 1269 Barrington Street, 4-7pm. The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Angela MacIvor, Brian Mersereau, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Clayton Cromwell, Costas Halavrezos, Councillor Tim Outhit, David Pugliese, Elmvale Strategies, Hill + Knowlton, Jean-Francois Guillot, Linden MacIntyre, lobbying, Mary Campbell, Naresh Raghubeer, Northern Pulp, old library, OpenHydro, Paul Withers, Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project, shipbuilding contract, subscription party 2018, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Zane Woodford

Welcome to the new Halifax Convention Centre! Here’s your $100 fine for smoking on the sidewalk

Morning File, Wednesday, September 12, 2018

September 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Burnside jail update The prisoners at the Burnside jail have ended their 20-day strike and have issued a statement, which reads in part: Dear supporters, You are commended for your work on our behalf. None of us thought that we would gain so much support by sharing our conditions with the public. The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside jail death, Burnside jail strike, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Koch Foundation, Councillor Sam Austin, death in custody, DeSmog Blog, dry communities, Events East, Grafton Street glory Hole, habeas corpus applications, HalifaxToday website, Liquor Control Act, Matthew Lambert, Minister Karen Casey, Peter Ziobrowski, Randy Riley, Robert Sanford, Smoking ban, storm cheat sheet, Supreme Court Justice James Chipman

Prisoners at the Burnside jail end 20-day strike, issue statement

September 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Editor’s note: the prisoners at the Burnside jail have ended their 20-day strike. They have issued this statement to the Halifax Examiner. Dear supporters, You are commended for your work on our behalf. None of us thought that we would gain so much support by sharing our conditions with the public. The negative perception of […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail protest, Burnside jail strike, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility

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