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Veterans advocate Peter Stoffer is calling on both provincial and federal gtovernments to hold a public inquiry into the triple murder-suicide in Upper Big Tracadie.
Stoffer says what happened to Lionel Desmond and his family screams for a public inquiry. He has written letters to the defence minister as well as Premier McNeil pointing out the many system failures that caused Desmond, the Afghan war vet; to react the way he did to his PTSD.
According to the Correctional Service of Canada, Atlantic Canada has the highest rate of solitary confinement for federal inmates; at five per cent.
The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners prohibits prolonged solitary confinement, which is anything over two weeks; longer than that is considered torture.
Canada helped draft those rules.
As of last month, 404 prisoners were in solitary, and 22 had been there for more than 100 days.