Original author: Canadian Press (CP)
Source: The Brandon Sun
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Date: September 27th, 2005


TORONTO (CP) - In the years since renegade airliners toppled the twin towers of the World Trade Center, debate has raged about whether national security trumps the constitutional rights of a prisoner who is believed to have links to terrorism.

But for the handful of prisoners in Canada who have already spent years in provincial jails that are woefully ill-suited to their indefinite sentences, the larger debate about constitutional rights is taking a back seat to a more pressing issue: where to put them.

"Whatever somebody is accused of, they're human beings with human rights," said lawyer Barbara Jackman, who has represented three of the four men currently detained in provincial remand facilities under security certificates.

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