Correctional service of the Canada is fighting the release of videos controversial forced chemical injection related to the death of troubled teen New Brunswick prison Ashley Smith.
Lawyers for the head of the prison of the Canada system will be in court Monday trying to quash a subpoena requiring the Commissioner of corrections to appear in court with videos of Smith injected by force with antipsychotic drugs.
A psychologist hired by the watchdog of the correctional service has called illegal forced injections.
An investigation, which had been established to begin in Toronto on April 4, will study the factors that can affect State of Smith of mind, coroner Bonita Porter said in November.
Porter decided last month that it would not consider the videos of the injection in the investigation into the death of Smith.
The family is difficult decision of the coroner to the Divisional Court of Ontario and has sought a summons to appear in the hope of forcing the head of the Correctional Service of the Canada to testify and to submit videos for review by the Court.
The young person of Moncton died in October 2007 after strangling herself in a cell of segregation at the Grand Valley institution for women in Kitchener, Ontario, under the supervision of prison guards.
The Smith family continues the Federal Government for 11 million dollars in his death. The lawsuit alleged federal correctional services staff - of senior officials at the prison guards - engaged in a "conspiracy" in danger the life of Smith by "unlawfully" him segregation for almost a year and not taking proper action after it was declared a suicide risk.
Accessibility links
没有评论:
发表评论