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A psychologist, who dealt with Ashley Smith while she was jailed in Nova Scotia in 2006-07, continued his testimony at Smith’s inquest revealing that she wasn’t a rare case or a “one-off.’’ It was quoted that there are about 40 equally challenging inmates like her in the federal correctional system.
The former worker of the Nova Institution in Truro, Dr. Allister Webster, completed a three-day testimony at Ashley Smith’s inquest in Toronto on Wednesday. Webster alleged that even though he never got a chance of completing a full psychological assessment of Smith, she was completely inundated by frontline staff, particularly guards, during her stay at Nova. He alleged that Nova staff was not ready for, and “blown away,” by Smith and had never seen an inmate like her before. Webster categorized Smith into “complex” high-needs female inmate, and suggested that a special frontline staff shall be trained for dealing with such prisoners and regularly have specialized training, such as social work, nursing and psychology.
A list of figures revealed by the Correctional Service of Canada elucidated that an estimate of 690 female prisoners are currently held up in the federal correctional system, 118 of whom are currently aged under 25. A former warden at Nova in presence of Smith, Alfred Legere, also recently testified that there are at least around 12 to 20 high-needs female inmates in the country. Webster testified on Wednesday that Smith demonstrated many of the harmful effects documented in studies on prolonged segregation.
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