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Tort Claims And Canadian Prisoners, Adelina Iftene, Lynne Hanson, Allan Manson
Tort Claims And Canadian Prisoners, Adelina Iftene, Lynne Hanson, Allan Manson
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Prisoners can be tragically wronged by the prison system, as highlighted by the recent Ashley Smith case. Tort actions have proven to be a problematic form of recourse for them. Negligence claims made by prisoners face many obstacles at every stage of the analysis: the duty of care, standard and breach, and causation. The authors offer an overview of tort litigation coming out of Canadian prison with a focus on health care based negligence claims, risks arising from other prisoners and the risk of self-harm. They find that these cases are unevenly resolved when the plaintiff is a prisoner. The …