Ashley Smith
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4 people charged after Vancouver police kidnapping rescueThe victim suffered significant but non-life-threatening injuries.CrimeOct 21, 2021
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B.C. home inspector under fire for offering ‘pre-inspections’ to benefit sellers over buyersA home inspectors association has filed a complaint against a colleague they say is gaming the system by playing both sides of real estate transactions.Jul 12, 2019
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Ashley Smith died in solitary confinement. Her family is ‘furious’ over the new segregation bill"We absolutely do not endorse it and especially did not endorse invoking Ashley's name to put forward this new bill. Absolutely not," Ward said.CanadaMay 30, 2019
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Advocate calls for greater transparency after five child deaths in New BrunswickAt least five New Brunswick children whose families were known to protective workers have died, but little is known about their deaths.CanadaAug 15, 2017
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Woman who put 14-month-old in boiling oven denied parole in AlabamaAlabama's parole board is refusing to release a woman convicted of putting her 14-month-old daughter into a hot oven in 2002.CrimeJul 28, 2016
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Inmate found dead in Grand Valley InstitutionCorrectional Service Canada says a woman serving a sentence for first-degree murder has died in an Ontario prison.CanadaJul 6, 2016
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‘People go to prison for punishment not to be punished’: advocates await Saskatchewan review of solitary confinementThe Ministry of Justice is reviewing a controversial tool used in Saskatchewan jails called administrative segregation, also known federally as solitary confinement.CanadaJun 7, 2016
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Ontario watchdog calls for end to solitary confinement for youth for more than 24hIt’s time to stop locking young people in solitary confinement for days at a time, says Ontario’s Advocate for Children and Youth.CanadaAug 19, 2015
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2 suicides at same N.S. women’s prison ‘raises a lot of red flags’: ombudsmanCamille Strickland-Murphy's suicide at the Nova Institute for Women followed the death of another woman, in April, who was serving time at the same prison.CanadaAug 14, 2015
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Inmates with mental illness subject to ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ suit allegesA Toronto law firm has launched a class action suit against the federal government over the treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.CanadaJul 17, 2015
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