{"id":18626,"date":"2020-05-12T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:48:44","slug":"notice-of-application-prison-covid","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/notice-of-application-prison-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGAL CHALLENGE CITING CANADA\u2019S FAILURE TO PROTECT PRISONERS\u2019 HEALTH DURING COVID-19: NOTICE OF APPLICATION"},"content":{"rendered":"On May 12, t<span lang=\"EN-CA\">he Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, Canadian Prison Law Association (CPLA), HIV &amp; AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO), and\u00a0current federal prisoner Sean Johnston filed a constitutional and human rights challenge against the Government of Canada, to compel it to take proactive steps to ensure prisoners\u2019 safety in the context of COVID-19. This includes the timely release of federal prisoners, with precedence for those who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to age or underlying health conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/news-release-legal-challenge-citing-canadas-failure-to-protect-prisoners-health-during-covid-19\/?lang=en\">See our media release here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the filed notice of application below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Filed notice of application May 12 - COVID and prisons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/18627\/?tmstv=1779487620\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 12, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, Canadian Prison Law Association (CPLA), HIV &amp; AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO), and\u00a0current federal prisoner Sean Johnston filed a constitutional and human rights challenge against the Government of Canada, to compel it to take proactive steps to ensure prisoners\u2019 safety in the &#8230; <a title=\"LEGAL CHALLENGE CITING CANADA\u2019S FAILURE TO PROTECT PRISONERS\u2019 HEALTH DURING COVID-19: NOTICE OF APPLICATION\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/notice-of-application-prison-covid\/\" aria-label=\"More on LEGAL CHALLENGE CITING CANADA\u2019S FAILURE TO PROTECT PRISONERS\u2019 HEALTH DURING COVID-19: NOTICE OF APPLICATION\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[155],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-18626","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-prisons","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/18626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22549,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/18626\/revisions\/22549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}