In the meantime, with a great deal of support from her family, Lisa is working on adjusting to being out of prison. She was on parole until her warrant expiry date at the end of November 1999. Lisa continues to work hard at her plans for her future. The biggest danger for Lisa now is that the reaction of others to her infamy will hinder her ability to make her own way.

Another Bad Trip: CSC Malingering in LSD Compensation Case

The millennium dawned with justice still eluding Dorothy Proctor and the other prisoners who were subjected to LSD experimentation in segregation at the Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston approximately 40 years ago. It is more than five years since Ms. Proctor, the only woman who has been willing to be identified, approached the Solicitor General and CSC requesting that they acknowledge and take responsibility for the experiments that she was subjected to at when she was a teenager imprisoned at P4W.

CSC commissioned a Board of Investigation to look in to Ms. Proctor’s case. In their report, Board of Investigation into Allegations of Mistreatment by a Former Inmate at the Prison for Women Between March 22, 1960 and August 1, 1963, the CSC- appointed investigators recommended compensation for Ms. Proctor and the other 22 women who had been administered LSD at the Prison for Women 35-40 years ago. CSC then commissioned the McGill University Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law “to obtain independent advice concerning the long term effects of LSD, and to develop guidelines, or protocols, for addressing each individual case”. They also suggested that women identify themselves to CSC health services.

The obvious deficits in the analysis of the McGill Report raises questions regarding the nature and completeness of the information that the authors were provided by CSC. Indeed, as Ms. Proctor’s lawyers have revealed recently, CSC has yet again repeated prior patterns by failing to disclose critical relevant documentation pertaining to the LSD experiments and CSC operations at P4W and throughout their investigation of same over the past five years.