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A Federal Court judge has quashed a decision by the Correctional Service of Canada to cut off two cable channels that broadcast late-night pornography to inmates at Archambault Institution, a federal penitentiary north of Montreal.

Haris Naraine, a 46-year-old Archambault inmate, filed a grievance in 2013 after prison authorities cancelled the two channels, included in a local cable package purchased by a group of inmates.

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The inmates accessed the sexually explicit programs in their cells on closed circuit channels, typically after 11 p.m.

In an affidavit, Naraine said he had viewed sexually explicit content at Archambault, which houses minimum and medium security inmates, and two other institutions for at least seven years without incidents or complaints from correctional officers.

Naraine’s grievance was denied by CSC’s acting senior deputy commissioner in 2014. But in a judgment dated July 30, Federal Court Justice Jocelyn Gagné overturned that decision and sent the matter back for a new determination by a different commissioner at CSC.