Locked up. Alone. For years. Ontario hospital’s use of isolation akin to ‘torture,’ independent review finds

This story is part of 20 Years in Isolation, the Star’s ongoing investigation into the use of psychiatric seclusion at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. The Star’s initial four-part series on the hospital’s practices has been met with calls for an independent review of Ontario’s mental health system.

Ontario’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital is locking patients up for years at a time in conditions akin to those the United Nations has “deemed to constitute torture,” concludes a damning independent report.