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During a testimony at the Ashley Smith inquest, a correctional official from the Grand Valley Institution for Women, Janice Sandeson, testified that the prison management was keen in attempting to keep the number of incident reports low during the stay of Moncton teen. Sandeson was working as a manager at the Kitchener, Ont., facility at the time, when she reports her supervisors expressed annoyance with the number of incident reports being filed each time Smith tied a ligature around her neck and guards had to enter the cell to intervene.
Upon investigation by lawyer Howard Rubel, Sandeson explained that management was of the opinion that the elevated number of reports is making the institution look bad and it instructed the guards to leave Smith alone as long as she was breathing. Rubel stated that “I’m going to suggest to you that there were two options, one is to report them incorrectly and the other is to reduce the number of times that Ashley’s cell is entered by correctional officers,” to which Sandeson affirmed “that’s a fair statement.” Rubel went on saying “’the easy one is to tell correctional officers, ‘Just don’t enter that cell,'” adding “and then there’s nothing to write about. Right?” “Right,” replied Sandeson.
Furthermore, Rubel added that “there was all sorts of arrangements made as to when to give her her shower, when to escort her, what type of food she could be provided with — and these were all detailed in the first management plan,” to which Sandeson also replied “Correct.”
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