OTTAWA - On Sept. 24, 19-year-old Ashley Smith, imprisoned in a segregation cell in an Ontario prison for women, asked a visiting prisoners' advocate to get answers about whether the conditions of her confinement violated her human rights.
Smith, alone in a cell with nothing except a loose gown - not even a mattress or a blanket - was denied a pencil to sign a form authorizing the advocate to act on her behalf.
Instead, a prison guard was fetched to witness Smith's request.
Smith had also been told she might be declared a dangerous offender.
The rare designation - only two women have been so designated - allows for an indefinite prison term, possibly for life.
Smith was not allowed access to either a prison advocate or lawyers who tried to meet with her at a different federal prison - and part of the reason why appears to be that she had been assaulted.
These are the fresh revelations about Smith, the mentally ill Moncton teenager who committed suicide Oct. 19 in her segregation cell at the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., less than a month after seeking answers about her rights.
The revelations came in testimony this week from Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, before a Commons committee.
Smith was found asphyxiated. Yet the testimony elicited little comment about Smith from any of the MPs, including the two New Brunswick MPs on the committee, Moncton-area Liberal MP Brian Murphy and Fundy Royal Conservative Rob Moore. Murphy said the committee's time was tight and its focus was on the dangerous offender provisions, not incarceration or the criminalization of the mentally ill.
Yes,They are all guilty of her death! Everyone who had a hand in Her conviction to her incarceration are responsible! They MURDERED this Poor Child slowly with thier LOVING system! What a way to Die,19 years old locked in a little cement room with no chance of hope for a better tomorrow and never had a chance to even start! Just think it could be Your Daughter just as easily for making a dumb childish action which led to this which the adults should have used better sense?
What was wrong with the first judge,Did he just think it was funny.I mean,DRUNK,and double drunk.Were the judge drunk too?
Appeal court overturns sentence, sending drunk driver to jail Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 3:01 PM AT CBC News New Brunswick's highest court has overturned the sentence given to a drunk driver who struck and killed a cyclist.
Peter Leon Howe, 42, originally received a two-year conditional sentence under house arrest after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident.
Howe struck Robbie MacRitchie in 2006 while the 23-year-old was riding his bicycle down the shoulder of a Fredericton road at night.
Howe, 42, was behind the wheel after drinking 24 beers and half a bottle of whiskey.
The Crown appealed the sentence, arguing that the trial judge erred in not giving enough weight to deterrence.
Jail time is the only way society will get that message that this kind of crime is unacceptable, Crown prosecutor Bill Corby said during the appeal hearing in October.
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New Brunswick's Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that Howe should spend 3½ years in prison. He has been given credit for the time he's already served, meaning Howe will now spend two years and 10 months in jail.
"We are of the view that the sentencing judge committed errors in principle in imposing sentence and, as a result, the appeal is allowed," the judgment states.
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19 years old and murdered,for what reason,ONTARIO
OTTAWA - On Sept. 24, 19-year-old Ashley Smith, imprisoned in a segregation cell in an Ontario prison for women, asked a visiting prisoners' advocate to get answers about whether the conditions of her confinement violated her human rights.
Smith, alone in a cell with nothing except a loose gown - not even a mattress or a blanket - was denied a pencil to sign a form authorizing the advocate to act on her behalf.
Instead, a prison guard was fetched to witness Smith's request.
Smith had also been told she might be declared a dangerous offender.
The rare designation - only two women have been so designated - allows for an indefinite prison term, possibly for life.
Smith was not allowed access to either a prison advocate or lawyers who tried to meet with her at a different federal prison - and part of the reason why appears to be that she had been assaulted.
These are the fresh revelations about Smith, the mentally ill Moncton teenager who committed suicide Oct. 19 in her segregation cell at the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., less than a month after seeking answers about her rights.
The revelations came in testimony this week from Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, before a Commons committee.
Smith was found asphyxiated. Yet the testimony elicited little comment about Smith from any of the MPs, including the two New Brunswick MPs on the committee, Moncton-area Liberal MP Brian Murphy and Fundy Royal Conservative Rob Moore. Murphy said the committee's time was tight and its focus was on the dangerous offender provisions, not incarceration or the criminalization of the mentally ill.
Yes,They are all guilty of her death! Everyone who had a hand in Her conviction to her incarceration are responsible!
They MURDERED this Poor Child slowly with thier LOVING system! What a way to Die,19 years old locked in a little cement room with no chance of hope for a better tomorrow and never had a chance to even start!
Just think it could be Your Daughter just as easily for making a dumb childish action which led to this which the adults should have used better sense?
You be safer traveling thru Cuba,than ontario.for sure
What was wrong with the first judge,Did he just think it was funny.I mean,DRUNK,and double drunk.Were the judge drunk too?
Appeal court overturns sentence, sending drunk driver to jail
Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 3:01 PM AT
CBC News
New Brunswick's highest court has overturned the sentence given to a drunk driver who struck and killed a cyclist.
Peter Leon Howe, 42, originally received a two-year conditional sentence under house arrest after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident.
Howe struck Robbie MacRitchie in 2006 while the 23-year-old was riding his bicycle down the shoulder of a Fredericton road at night.
Howe, 42, was behind the wheel after drinking 24 beers and half a bottle of whiskey.
The Crown appealed the sentence, arguing that the trial judge erred in not giving enough weight to deterrence.
Jail time is the only way society will get that message that this kind of crime is unacceptable, Crown prosecutor Bill Corby said during the appeal hearing in October.
Continue Article
New Brunswick's Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that Howe should spend 3½ years in prison. He has been given credit for the time he's already served, meaning Howe will now spend two years and 10 months in jail.
"We are of the view that the sentencing judge committed errors in principle in imposing sentence and, as a result, the appeal is allowed," the judgment states.
The reasoning of the decision is to follow.
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