DEATH IN PRISON CANADA STYLE
A prisoner bleed to death while guards did nothing. There was no first
aid administered and prison officials failed to do a comprehensive
investigation. Accuracy of the event was very sketchy at best. The
prison was known for racism from both the staff and the prisoners. But
official’s content there was no cover up, hmm. You’d think this was
Burma or other totalitarian regime with a barbaric and total disregard
for their inmates. But alas this event occurred at the Warkworth
Institution, Trent Hills, Ontario Canada.
An Aboriginal inmate, Martin Blackwind, was successful in
committing suicide by slicing an artery in his arm. He was doing a 17
year prison sentence for manslaughter when this occurred. The guards
stood by as he bled to death and only after 10 minutes did the
ambulance arrive but by then he had already expired. The guards
involved directly with the incident were given time off without pay,
imagine. If it were not for the efforts of Federal Correctional
Investigator Howard Saper this crime would have gone unchecked like so
may other questionable deaths that occurred in Canada’s Gulag. There
was more than just a hint of racial bias reveled in the investigation
of this institution as well.
Sadly this is not an isolated case. Ambivalence to crimes against
minority inmates permeates the system through out Canada’s penal
system. This should be of no surprise since police have allowed
intoxicated Aboriginals to freeze to death in the elements rather than
take them to jail in several communities I know of. The Crown is but a
Crown of Thorns when the concerns of the Aboriginal population are
concerned. The judicial system is bias at best and this event may very
well not lead to criminal prosecution regardless of its discovery.
It still boggles the imagination how this inmate got the instrument to
lacerate his artery in the first place. He was left alone in a cell, or
was he? Did the guards simply watch as his life’s blood spilled onto
the concrete floor? How callous and cruel could a group of guards be to
allow a human being to die before their very eyes without event
administering the basics of first aid? Maybe they just forgot. Then for
the system to bungle reports and exclude important facts of the case
was incomprehensible. But officials said there was no cover up eh.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080522.wdeath22/BNStory/National/Ontario/
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
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