Hearing set in advance of Smith inquest
Published Thursday November 26th, 2009
OTTAWA - A standing hearing for the eventual coroner's inquest into the tragic death in custody of Moncton teenager Ashley Smith is scheduled for Dec. 3 in Toronto.
The hearing will determine which parties can be represented at the later inquest.
The province of Ontario is putting some of its top people on the hearing.
Ontario's deputy chief coroner, Dr. Bonita Porter, will preside and the chief counsel to the chief coroner will act as coroner's counsel.
Smith, 19, strangled herself in the segregation cell in which she was confined 23 hours a day at the Grand Valley Institution for Women, a federal prison in Kitchener, Ont.
She died Oct. 19, 2007.
The federal prison ombudsman's investigation concluded her death was preventable.
Howard Sapers said it occurred after the prison service failed to provide Smith with the care, treatment and protection their own policies and the law demanded.
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