Avoid costly recommendations, prison boss urges Ashley Smith inquest
Posted October 16, 2013 1:46 pm.
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Canada’s top prisons official is urging inquest jurors to refrain from making costly recommendations.
Don Head, commissioner of Correctional Service of Canada, says there’s simply no money to implement them.
Head also tells the inquest into the death of Ashley Smith that training recommendations are difficult to implement because of staff shortages.
Head was deputy commissioner during Smith’s incarceration, but was away on language training during a significant part of her stay in federal prisons.
He says he had little to do with her case management.
Smith, 19, strangled herself in her segregation cell in Kitchener, Ont., in October 2007.
