In a statement, the Correctional Service of Canada says it "is in the early stages of exploring overdose prevention sites as another harm-reduction measure option for inmates."
"At the very least, let's start opening up so we can get away from the needle-in-the-cell thing," he said, adding supervised drug use would involve health-care professionals at a particular area in a prison instead of guards having to deal with inmates injecting smuggled drugs in their cells. The Nova Institution for Women in Truro, N.S., implemented a prisoner needle-exchange program earlier this month after it was introduced last June at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., and the Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B. It was expanded to the Fraser Valley Institution for Women in Abbotsford, B.C., and the Edmonton Institution for Women this year.
"Inmates who participate in the are required to keep their needle kit safely stored in their cells," it said, adding a lost kit or one with unaccounted-for items as well as unauthorized use of equipment could result in an inmate being disciplined. Brown, 45, said he began using intravenous drugs in 1996 while he was serving time at the Atlantic Institution in Renous and continued until 2014, long after he was released.
Forget this needle-exchange overdose prevention sites. Prisons should be offering drug rehab to make these prisoners clean. Isnt drugs the main reason that these people are in jail.
Just let them OD
Position jails they there to guard people not help there medical needs guards not nurses or dr. I get it that mentality needs to change our person system failling mentally ill and addicted people .
Nurses should be on staff to administer narcon for inmates who od. And greater security in jails for drugs