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Author: Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: August 8, 2025 - 04:00
Prisoners’ Justice Day: 50 years on, inhumane jail conditions persist
August 8, 2025
Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) demands an end to frequent and preventable deaths in custody, while standing up for basic human rights of people in prison. It was initiated by prisoners to honour Edward “Eddie” Nalon, who was left to die alone in the segregation unit of Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary in Bath, Ont. on Aug. 10, 1974. Read More
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