@adachi “She was required to take her medication in front of a health-care worker in God’s Lake First Nation but said she was not always able to make it there, in part, she said, because the medication caused nausea and she would plan to take the medication later in the day and the nursing station in God’s Lake would, at times, be closed. She said she would take the medication, but it would be recorded as a missed dose because it was not witnessed.

Mason was ordered to spend 90 days in jail but was released earlier after an application from her lawyer to the Court of King’s Bench argued her arrest was unlawful and following a request from a local media outlet to interview her while she was in jail.

Leif Jensen, a lawyer who took on Mason’s case through the University of Manitoba Community Law Centre’s prison law clinic, said he still doesn’t know why she was taken to jail, rather than to a hospital.

She was not segregated from other inmates after her arrest — she had several roommates and even briefly took on a position in the jail’s kitchen — leaving Jensen to wonder why the perceived threat to public health warranted arrest.”

Should have just been the hospital.