Administrative Segregation Research Paper

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Administrative segregation violates inmates’ constitutional rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is flawed as a practice and amounts to torture. As such prison systems cannot demonstrate the practice of AS to be justified in a free and democratic society in accordance with section 1 of the Charter. Such infringements on inmates’ rights continue, as the Charter’s, “Legal Rights” sets out rights that protect inmates in dealings with the justice system and to ensure individuals are treated fairly. Consequently, inmates rights are violated when administrative segregation deprives a person the security of person when they expose them to physical, physiological, and social trauma from being denied, for an indefinite period, any meaningful