The province is making another attempt to limit the scope of a coroner's inquest into seven London jail deaths.
Urged by a coroner to figure quickly out its next steps at a delayed inquest, a provincial ministry is seeking even more time to provide answers. That has derailed the inquest indefinitely and put families who were on the brink of learning more about their loved ones’ deaths back into
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The province of Ontario will pay former Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) inmates almost $33 million for what they endured in London's provincial jail. Read More
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The province has agreed to pay thousands of former inmates at London’s troubled provincial jail a total of $33 million in a class-action lawsuit claiming their Charter rights were violated. Read More
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A Queen’s University research project providing correctional officers 12 weeks of free mental health counselling is looking for participants from London's Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC). Read More
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A guard at London’s provincial jail is back on the job while facing criminal charges, including for allegedly trying to disarm police officers, assaulting police officers and breaking her release conditions. Read More
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Ontario’s “increasingly ineffective and unsafe” jail system needs urgent, radical and widespread changes to stop the dramatic rise in deaths of inmates, an expert panel struck by the province’s chief coroner says. Read More