Corrections and Conditional Release Regulations (SOR/92-620)

82. In reviewing an offender's complaint or grievance, the person reviewing the complaint or grievance shall take into consideration

• (a) any efforts made by staff members and the offender to resolve the complaint or grievance, and any recommendations resulting therefrom;

• (b) any recommendations made by an inmate grievance committee or outside review board; and

• (c) any decision made respecting an alternate remedy referred to in subsection 81(1).

• 83. (1) The Service shall, to ensure a safe and healthful penitentiary environment, ensure that all applicable federal health, safety, sanitation and fire laws are complied with in each penitentiary and that every penitentiary is inspected regularly by the persons responsible for enforcing those laws.

• (2) The Service shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of every inmate and that every inmate is

  • (a) adequately clothed and fed;

  • (b) provided with adequate bedding;

  • (c) provided with toilet articles and all other articles necessary for personal health and cleanliness; and

  • (d) given the opportunity to exercise for at least one hour every day outdoors, weather permitting, or indoors where the weather does not permit exercising outdoors.

84. The institutional head shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the effects of an inmate that are permitted to be taken into and kept in the penitentiary are protected from loss or damage.

• 85. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), where an inmate escapes, the institutional head may dispose of the inmate's personal effects

  • (a) in the case of effects other than legal or official documents, two years after the date of the escape; and

  • (b) in the case of legal or official documents, seven years after the date of the escape.

• (2) The institutional head shall not dispose of an inmate's effects under subsection (1) unless the institutional head has taken all reasonable steps to determine

  • (a) that the inmate is not in custody in Canada;

  • (b) that, where the inmate is in custody in a foreign state, no extradition application is contemplated and the inmate has not applied to the foreign state for a transfer to Canada pursuant to an agreement between that state and Canada; and

  • (c) that the inmate does not have a next of kin to whom the effects can be sent.

• (3) Where the institutional head disposes of an inmate's personal effects, other than legal or official documents, under subsection (1), the institutional head may

  • (a) give the effects to a charitable organization located in the vicinity of the penitentiary;

  • (b) destroy the effects, if the effects are unusable; or

  • (c) remit the effects to Her Majesty in right of Canada.

• (4) Where the institutional head, under subsection (1), disposes of an inmate's personal effects that are legal or official documents, the institutional head shall dispose of the effects in accordance with the instructions of the Public Trustee or other appropriate official of the province in which the penitentiary is located.