Videos Show Dehumanizing Treatment of Imprisoned Teen Ashley Smith

Videos show ‘dehumanizing’ treatment of teen Ashley Smith

Corrections Canada had tried to stop videos from being made public

October 31, 2012 – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/31/ashley-smith-…

Videos [to view, click on original link above] of teenager Ashley Smith taken in the months before she died in a prison cell show the teen was subjected to “degrading and dehumanizing” treatment, her family’s lawyer told a coroner’s hearing in Toronto Wednesday.

Julian Falconer led the hearing through the video clips shot prior to Oct. 19, 2007, the day the New Brunswick teen died from strangulation after tying ligatures to her neck in her cell

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