Ottawa says it’s replacing ‘administrative segregation’ with ‘structured interventions’ for certain inmates

By Cristin Schmitz ( October 16, 2018, 3:24 PM EDT) -- Prisoners’ rights advocates say the devil is in the details of proposed Liberal government reforms that would replace the constitutionally dubious practice of “administrative segregation” with “a new correctional interventions model” that would divert offenders who cannot be managed in the general population to newly created “structured intervention units” (SIUs) that offer inmates “an opportunity” for a minimum of four hours per day outside their cells and a minimum of two hours a day “of meaningful human contact.”...