Review into death of inmate Joshua Evans to look at why disabled man was in jail
“NDP justice critic Claudia Chender said the situation shows there is a long way to go in improving the system. It starts with answering why someone with the mental age of a seven-year-old who was known to be suicidal would be in jail at all and wasn't under constant watch.
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Her most basic question, however, is ‘why someone who is in the care of corrections is found dead.’
‘I think that's a question that everyone should have,’ she said.
Chender wants the province to do an external review of the system to better understand what's happening in its jails and make sure people's basic human rights are being met. She said the recent prisoners protest at Burnside shows that question is up for debate.
‘They've said that the conditions in that facility are such that things like this may happen.’”