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A coroner’s inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail culminated Tuesday in dozens of recommendations aimed at increasing oversight of the province’s correctional system and access to mental-health care for those within it, as jurors ruled Soleiman Faqiri’s death a homicide.
The jury’s findings provided long awaited validation to Faqiri’s family, who for years pushed for answers regarding his time in custody, and gave them comfort that he had finally been seen and heard, his brother Yusuf Faqiri said.
“They humanized my late brother… they looked at my family to see that Soleiman was somebody. They heard and they saw Soli, and I’m not sure that Soli was heard and seen in those 11 days (he spent in jail),” Yusuf Faqiri said after the verdict was delivered.
The jury issued a total of 57 recommendations focusing on the delivery of health care – particularly mental-health services – in corrections, training for correctional staff and management, and use-of-force practices, among other issues. They include creating an independent “inspectorate” for corrections, which would have the authority to launch its own investigations into individual and systemic issues involving Ontario’s correctional and detention centres.
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The jury’s findings provided long awaited validation to Faqiri’s family, who for years pushed for answers regarding his time in custody, and gave them comfort that he had finally been seen and heard, his brother Yusuf Faqiri said.
“They humanized my late brother… they looked at my family to see that Soleiman was somebody. They heard and they saw Soli, and I’m not sure that Soli was heard and seen in those 11 days (he spent in jail),” Yusuf Faqiri said after the verdict was delivered.
The jury issued a total of 57 recommendations focusing on the delivery of health care – particularly mental-health services – in corrections, training for correctional staff and management, and use-of-force practices, among other issues. They include creating an independent “inspectorate” for corrections, which would have the authority to launch its own investigations into individual and systemic issues involving Ontario’s correctional and detention centres.
Global's Frazer Snowdon has the details.
For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10164146/verdict-expected-ontario-jail-death-inquest/
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