NOTHING CHANGES IN OUR JAIL SYSTEMS

Whether it's federal or provincial jails, our authorities don't seem to be paying attention. Ashley Smith was treated abominably leading to her eventual death in jail in Kitchener. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Guards "brushed off " pleas for help". The indiviual involved had a long history since childhood of mental illness which was being controlled with medication. Once in jail when his prescriptions ran out, the guards and administration ignored his pleas for necessary medication. The very predictable result was a suicide attempt. Clearly whatever faint lessond were learned by Correctional services Canada at the federal level have not moved down the line into provincial institutions. Maplehurst guards saved his life after he was unconscious from self inflicted suffocation but it didn't have to go that far if they had responded properly in the first place. Once again however there will be limited to zero discipline for life threatening negligence by authorities within our prison system. This time the inmate survived and is currently out on bail. The whole ordeal is exacerbated by jail guards alleged "retaliation" for his troublemaking when he was sent from hospital back to Maplehurst. Our prison systems are shameful.