This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The presiding coroner of inquiry into the death of suicidal teen prisoner, Ashley Smith, who committed suicide by choking herself while guards watched helplessly, is the “best memorial we can give.” The second inquiry into the Smith’s death began recently in Toronto, in which Dr. John Carlisle informed the members of five-member jury that the heartbreaking tragedy shall maneuver the future of corrections care. Carlisle alleged that “we cannot now reverse the course of history. What is done is done,” while adding that “this is the best memorial we can give to Ashley.”
Monday’s court hearing was a an agreed statement of facts about the death of 19-years-old Smith, who committed suicide by fastening ligatures on her neck as guards watched and recorded the incident at the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont. It was agreed that prison guards were ordered to avoid entering her cell as long as she was breathing. Lawyer of Smith’s family, Julian Falconer, alleged that “what we would like to see happen is serious explanations for why a 19-year-old mentally ill young woman would have been subjected to absolute torturous circumstances, isolation.”
Falconer mentioned that he expects the federal government and executives of the Correctional Service of Canada to actually answer questions about the incident. He alleged that “at its heart, the federal government has to reconsider its approach to simply building bigger warehouses and putting more people in them,” while clarifying that he will be pressing for “numerous levels of accountability.”
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