Tag: Canadian Prison Law
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Rastafari prisoners can challenge security transfer denials before judge
Who Controls the Narrative? Rastafari, Prisoner Rights, and the Post-Dorsey Shift The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Dorsey v. Canada (Nov. 2025) allows federal prisoners to use habeas corpus to challenge denials for transfers to lower-security prisons, a significant expansion of prisoners’ rights by establishing such refusals as a deprivation of liberty. This ruling…