WELL IT APPEARS AS IF AT LEAST SOME OF OUR COURTS ARE LEGITIMATE

The following article appeared in the Waterloo Region Record eight days ago titled "Inmates $30M segregation lawsuit will stand, court rules". It was written by Colin Perkel. What I also find interesting is that it was the Ontario Court of Appeal upholding a decision by Superior Court Justice Paul Perell. I believe that this was Superior Court in Toronto, not in Kitchener. I am wondering if there is a pattern here. To date my experience both first and second hand has been extremely bad with our local (Kitchener) Superior Court. Ridiculous decisions seem to be no problem for them on occasion. .................................................................................................................................... In this case a former inmate was incarcerated for two years at the Toronto South Detention Centre. He was charged with bank-robbery but acquitted at trial. During his incarceration he was placed in isolation on two occasions for refusing to take medication he said had nasty side-effects. His mental health worsened to the point that he had suicidal thoughts and auditory hallucinations. Superior Court agreed that Ontario had mistreated its inmates with their solitary confinement protocols and ordered a $30 million class-action award. The province of Ontario appealed to the Ontario Court of Appeal who upheld the class-action award. ................................................................................................................................... Imagine that! The Rule of Law extends to the Ontario government. Superior Court Justice Paul Perell found that "...segregation violated principles of fundamental justice" and "The province had been "systemically and routinely" negligent in running the solitary confinement regieme, he ruled." Well it's about time that the provincial (& hopefully federal) correctional service got smacked for their cruel and unnecessary solitary confinement procedures. Cruel and unnecessary and condoned by our idiot politicians and governments.