The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided on Friday that the standard of proof required in major disciplinary offense proceedings for inmates would be raised from a “balance of probabilities” to “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Case file: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/20907/index.do
I’m just not used to inmates being treated like humans.
Yeah that’s fair. Everyone is just focused on the punishment side of imprisonment. You tend to forget they are still humans instead of animals or just numbers.