Maplehurst Correctional Complex and Superior Court

lockdowns: In a judgment released this week, Superior Court Justice Douglas Gray ruled that lockdowns at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex violated the inmates' rights to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, according to Toronto Star. The judge said he had little difficulty concluding that their treatment was degrading, disproportionate and excessive as to outrage standards of decency. By Amy Dempsey Feature Writer Thu., May 12, 2016 An Ontario judge has awarded $85,000 to two inmates after ruling their Charter rights were violated by staffing-related lockdowns at a Milton jail — a move lawyers say could open the door to a class-action lawsuit against the province. The conditions of detention during lockdowns are very close to segregation or solitary confinement, the judge wrote. The inmate is holed up with another inmate not of his choosing. In some ways they are worse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.