An official from the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has confirmed to Global News that another inmate has died at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre.
Spokesperson Andrew Morrison says the Office of the Chief Coroner is conducting an investigation to determine cause and manner of death.
On Monday, Hamilton paramedics responded to a call at the jail on Barton Street, just before 2 p.m., and found a man in medical distress inside a cell.
The ministry revealed that the man was, in fact, an inmate who was transported to hospital in critical condition, where he later died.
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Hamilton Paramedic Supt. David Thompson told Global News that paramedics have been dealing with a “spike” in overdose calls at the jail recently.
So far in 2019, Thompson says of the 59 calls to the jail, 13 are considered drug- or opioid-related.
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