COVID-19 pandemic, after inmates at correctional centres in Prince Albert and Saskatoon started refusing meals.The strike started Monday.
Prisoners are calling for Christine Tell’s resignation for failing to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in the province’s jails. Inmates stage hunger strike, call for Saskatchewan corrections minister’s resignation There have been outbreaks at correctional centres in Regina and Saskatoon.Now, a Saskatoon-based group the Indigenous Joint Action Coalition has started a petition calling for Tell’s removal.
It took part in a day on solidarity with those incarcerated Wednesday.“Minister Christine Tell has let down a lot of people,” said group spokesperson Erica Violet Lee.