Ashley Smith’s death was an accident, not suicide, report says

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After three years of demanding answers about how their daughter came to die on the floor of her prison cell with a cloth ligature around her neck, the family of 19-year-old Ashley Smith has obtained a damning Correctional Services Canada report that puts the lie to claims that she killed herself.

The report concludes that Ms. Smith had been desperately seeking attention and sensory stimulation after being systematically shunted around the country from one dank, featureless isolation cell to another.

“I consider it highly likely that Ashley Smith’s death was not a suicide, but rather an accident, and that no one intended Ashley Smith to die – least of all Ashley Smith herself,” psychologist Margo Rivera concluded in the internal CSC report.

The CSC has said that Ms. Smith committed suicide through self-asphyxiation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ashley-smiths-death-was-an-accident-not-suicide-report-says/article1779022/

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1. ... What. (nt)

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2. The Fifth Estate

(I think it was) had quite a damning episode devoted to Ashley a while back.

It read like something out of one of Sheriff Joe Arpeio's camps.

She was beyond question a hard case, by the time she died. But how she came to be that ... so many opportunities to have changed that timeline.