Guards at a Nova
Scotia prison used “extraordinary force” when they strapped Ashley Smith
in a specially designed restraining chair for eight hours in 2007 for
banging her head on the floor of her cell, says the lawyer for the
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.
Jurors at the inquest
into Smith’s October 2007 death viewed dramatic video Tuesday showing
the teen being strapped into a chair at the Nova Institution because she
was harming herself in her segregation cell.
“It’s an extraordinary
deprivation of her liberty. She was in that chair for eight hours
strapped in like that. It’s an extraordinary use of force on someone who
was essentially compliant with them,” Breese Davies said in an
interview outside the inquest.
“There doesn’t seem to have been any effort to take measures to de-escalate the situation with her,” Davies said.
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