“Almost every life lost in our sample could be deemed a preventable death,” concludes a landmark new report on eight years of deaths inside Ontario’s 25 correctional facilities.
There were 192 inmate deaths in Ontario jails in just eight years, almost all of which were preventable.
In 2014, 19 persons died while in custody in Ontario facilities, the report states. In 2021, that number had risen to 46. On Tuesday, the brother of a man who died soon after he was taken to provincial custody praised the efforts of the coroner’s office, but said it’s time to set up a permanent external investigator to oversee Ontario’s jails.
“The ministry will be taking time to review all of the recommendations and respond to the Chief Coroner within the requested six months,” he said. Drug overdoses account for the largest share of inmate deaths — 74, or 40 per cent — with natural deaths accounting for 28 per cent and suicides at 24 per cent. Six deaths in the study period were homicides.
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