As Ontario jails roll out a new inmate classification program intended to make jails safer, some inmates at one Toronto jail say they are facing more violence and conflict along with harsher conditions.
The introduction of a computer-based tool to classify inmates by risk of violent behaviour instead of treating all inmates as maximum-security by default fulfils a long-standing recommendation by the former office of the correctional investigator — with the goal of making jails, which mostly hold people awaiting trial, both less violent and less restrictive.
