Calls grow for inmate releases as COVID-19 caseloads climb in jails and prisons
Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release some inmates in provincial jails and federal prisons as outbreaks of COVID-19 driven by the fast-moving Omicron variant spread through the country’s correctional facilities.Federal and provincial corrections facilities are seeing surges in COVID caseloads. (Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release…