| Subject: "JAILED at age 13 till age 19, *REPEATEDLY* Subject: DENIED PROBATION, Ashley Smith was ALWAYS Subject: KEPT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN 17 JAILS" Subject: says É(eh)PC President/Party Leader Ashley, JUST A KID Dr. Allister Webster, psychologist for Nova Insti- tution (women's jail) in Truro, NS said: "We need to consider her behavior as a result of choice as opposed to mental illness." "She was making very bad choices ... ." "But he added that consistently, across the institu- tions where Smith had been held in custody, "men- tal health professional were in agreement this wo- man was not psychotic," Webster told coroner's counsel Marg Creal." Toronto Star, Tuesday, March 5th 2013, "Smith not psychotic, inquest hears", page A8 HOW could Ashley Smith MAKE BAD CHOICES when she's *ALWAYS* CONFINED to a tiny, 8' x 10', solitary cell wearing an "unrippable" security gown, wit a steel bed, lights on all the time, and being watched 24/7 by a video camera? Dr. Allister Webster appears to be "intentionally" VERY DECEITFUL as it was CLEARLY IMPOS- SIBLE for Ashley Smith to MAKE BAD CHOICES as she was ALWAYS CONFINED TO A BAR- REN SOLITARY CELL. MAKING "BAD CHOICES" - HOW? Dr. Allister Webster's claim that Ashley Smith was MAKING BAD CHOICES sounds like BULLSHIT, no? Dr. Webster repeats "THE SAME REFRAIN" as everyone else who dealt with Ashley Smith who describe her as "a challenging inmate". collinsdictionary.com/refrain But LOOK at HOW BADLY they treated her. Was her behavior was PROVOKED by THEM? It seems the prison staff MADE IT A SPORT A- BUSING Ashley Smith IN EVERY WHICH POS- SIBLE WAY taking advantage of the fact that she was JUST A KID, no? Gov't BULLSHIT? Is Dr. Webster BULLSHITTING on behalf of the Gov't? "Webster did an assessment of her in early No- vember 2006 at Nova, during which time Smith indicated to him that she had the "means and intent to kill herself". Toronto Star, Thursday, March 7th 2013, "There are more Ashleys: 'Comp-lex' inmate wasn't a rare case, psycho- logist testifies", page A13 WHAT MEANS? She only had a metal bed in her very tiny. 8'x10', cell being watched by a video camera 24/7 forced to wear an "unrippable" security gown. WHAT MEANS? Such AN UNTRUE ACCUSATION belittles THE INHUMANITY that Ashley Smith was forced to endure at the hands of THE CRUEL, HEART- LESS PRISON PERSONNEL. dictionary.com/belittle  WHAT INTENT? Ashley's Mother is on record at the inquest AF- FIRMING that Ashley *NEVER* had any intent of killing herself AT ANY TIME because she was a happy go-lucky girl. Is Dr. Webster FABULATING like everyone else who has dealt with Ashley to MAKE HER LOOK BAD and themselves LOOK NOT SO BAD? dictionary.com/fabulation IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE IT, doesN'T it? IS THAT "THE GAME" being played out at the inquest? TO DISPARAGE Ashley Smith in order to JUS- TIFY HER *INHUMANE* TREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF THE PRISON STAFF IN ALL 17 PRISONS where she was held-up in a 8' x 10', BARREN, solitary confinement cell over the course of 6.4 years. dictionary.com/disparage lexico.comin/humane SUCH *DEVIANT* BEHAVIOR BY A GOV'T IS "TYPICAL" OF FASCIST Police state govern- ments who believe ... 1. they are NOT ACCOUNTABLE 2. CANNOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE 3. and A PACK OF LIES will do the trick. dictionary.com/deviant IT DOESN'T. Ashley's Mother at the Inquest Coralee Smith, Ashley's mother, "recalled how the years of segregation appeared to diminish her daughter." "In a harrowing account of the last time she saw her daughter alive, Coralee Smith described her shock at Ashley's appearance during a visit in the summer of 2007." " 'Oh Mom, my skin is all loose," Ashley told Smith through the Plexiglas screen that separated them. " 'She was not a 19-year-old girl at that point; she was aged," an emotional Smith told an inquest jury. ' She was a lot smaller.' " "Four guards at the Nova Institution for Women in Truro N.S. had brought Ashley into the interview room, her mom recounted." She was in handcuffs, shackles and dressed in a security gown aimed at preventing suicides. Her hair looked dirty. Ashley had an injured eye ... ." "At the end of the visit, Smith put her hand to the screen, but Ashley appeared reluctant." Toronto Metro News, Friday, February 22nd 2013, "Ashley Smith was emaciated, hurt, dirty in prison: Mother", page 11 PHONY *Whitewashing* Inquest Has the inquest dealt with Ashley's *RAGGED* CONDITION "NOT" long prior to her death: the INJURED EYE, the DIRTY HAIR, the LOOSE SKIN? NO! WHY NOT? NOT CONCERNED? THE INJURED EYE, DIRTY HAIR, LOOSE SKIN seem to suggest that Ashley was *already* MARKED FOR DEATH. Her death was CLEARLY - according to the É(eh)PC - A *PREMEDITATED* CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. The goal of the inquest is NOT to condem the Gov't for wrong doing, but to EXONERATE IT by white- washing the whole Ashley Smith affair and that's why it's a 100% PHONY INQUEST. dictionary.cambridge.org/whitewash dictionary.com/exonerate Ashley's Mother's LAST WORD "Outside court, Ms. Smith said: " ... we will never accept that Ashley should have been treated in this manner." The Globe and Mail, Friday, Febru- ary 22nd 2013, " 'My skin is all loose,' Ashley Smith told mother in final visit", page A4 Warden: FIRED, then REHIRED "The warden fired shortly after Ashley Smith's 2007 death is again working with the Correctional Service of Canada, but her position and date of hire are being kept secret by the agency." Toronto Star, Thursday, March 21st 2013, "Warden rehired after Ashley Smith death in prison", page A2 By firing and then, rehiring the warden, is the Gov't treating the whole Ashley Smith affair as a JOKE? "It's simply an affront for the family to learn that one of the key players in promoting this order not to go into (Smith's) cell until she stops breathing ... has been brought back into the CSC fold," said Julian Falconer, lawyer for Smith's family. "A Correctional Service spokesperson refused to confirm if Berry works for the agency or give her position." Toronto Star, Thursday, March 21st 2013, "Warden rehired after Ashley Smith death in prison", page A2 REBELLIOUS Prison psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Penn testified at the Inquest that Ashley Smith "was highly un- stable, showed sadistic tendencies and was one of the most difficult cases he had ever seen ... ." Of course, given the NATIONAL MEDIA ATTEN- TION this story has been getting, HE pretty much HAS TO SAY THAT, didN'T he? "Apparently", he once wrote: " 'This young woman is essentially a large tyrannical child who can't to- lerate limits, feels estranged and isolated from peers, unloved, unliked, and often hopeless.' " Toronto Metro News, Tuesday, March 26th 2013, "Sadistic, tyrannical, unstable ... : Startling testi- mony at inquest", page 8 Did he write this "before" OR "after" her death? Was he "instructed" to write this? IN ANY CASE, confined to a tiny 8' x 10' cell solitary cell in 17 jails for 6.4 years, often handcuffed, shac- kled, forced to wear a security gown, treated as a "mental" case to further degrade her (Incidentally, the inquest heard that she was *NOT* a "mental" case.), AND *ALWAYS* BEING BADLY TREATED BY PRISON STAFF, I - personally - think it's, IN FACT, "QUITE NORMAL" that Ashley should have been REBELLIOUS. dictionary.com/rebellious But that does NOT necessarily mean she felt "es- tranged and isolated from peers, unloved, unliked, and often hopeless" given her strong relationship with her adoptive mother. Evidently, the psychiatrist is reading to much into this whole affair WITHOUT THE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. According to her mother Ashley was A HAPPY, WELL-ADJUSTED CHILD. collinsdictionary.com/well-adjusted LAUGHABLE! You have to ask yourself if Dr. Jeffrey Penn A TOTAL QUACK? This "psychiatrist who assessed Ashley Smith at a prison in Nova Scotia in late 2006, bristled Monday when it was suggested ... that he tried to have her transferred to a psychiatric hospital without her consent by first evaluating her over the phone - a move that's ILLEGAL." Correctional Service Canada staffer, Brigitte Lavigne, in an e-mail "told other national head- quarters staff about her 'cautioning' Penn that he should see Smith in person, 'though it's his licence,' she added in parenthesis." Toronto Star, Tuesday, March 26th 2013, "Prison psychiatrist grilled about offer to certify Smith over phone", page A6 That's NOT CRAZY? He doesN'T seem to take his job seriously does he? HOW HONEST, then, can be his assessment of Ashley Smith? Is his flippant assessment of Ashley Smith to be trusted? dictionary.com/flippant NOT ONE BIT! KEPT IN SECLUSION - AS ALWAYS For 115 days, Ashley Smith was kept "in seclusion her entire time ... at the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Saskatoon ... "on intensive psychiatric care" (IPC): "she was kept in her room alone, with close observation." Toronto Star, Wednesday, April 10th 2013, "MD queried about Smith's seclusion", on page A6. THE UNBELIEVABLY INHUMAN SOLITARY CON- FINEMENT ISOLATION CONTINUED THERE. It was Correctional Service Canada that encouraged her - for her own good - to go there: so she agreed to go: in the words of Correctional Service Canada, she "volunteered" to go, BUT she was *NOT* TREA- TED ANY DIFFERENTLY. She more than likely agreed to go in the belief that she could GET OUT of seclusion. HOWEVER, THE PROBLEM IS THIS: "... Dr. Olajide Adelugba, a psychiatrist and forensic specialist still at RPC, told Smith's inquest in Toronto that there is no formal mechanism in place at the facility for an indivi- dual to challenge being kept on IPC status." Toronto Star, Wednesday, April 10th 2013, "MD queried about Smith's seclusion", on page A6 THEY - probably - LIED TO HER THAT HER SITU- ATION THERE *WOULD* IMPROVE. IT DIDN'T. It was MORE OF THE *SAME*. *ALL* THIS strongly suggests Correctional Service Canada was out TO PSYCHOLOGICALLY *BREAK* Ashley Smith. BUT THEY COULDN'T! HAIR PULLED, CURSED AT In the Psychiatric Prison Hospital Ashley Smith was INHUMANLY ABUSED BY ADULTS and basically, TREATED IN A VERY *DEMEANING* FASHION at the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Sas- katoon. REMEMBER: SHE WAS JUST A KID, A KID! SHAME! SHAME! ASSAULTED! Ashley Smith complained that "a supervising guard had assaulted her ... ." "... Peter Guenther, former executive-director of the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, said the incident involved a correctional supervisor, John Tarala, in March 2007." He told the Toronto Ashley Smith Inquest that he heard that Ashley Smith claimed that she "was grabbed, lifted off the ground by her hair and called the "C" word ... also ... Tarala had stepped on her head." "In addition, the report notes a nurse who witnessed the incident said Tarala had ordered her to falsify her report." Toronto Metro News, Thursday, April 4th 2013, "Prison guard pulled teen's hair, cursed at her, Smith inquest hears" on page 20 PUNISHMENT! Former inmate at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, ON, Jeannette Tossounian, (who was put in a segregation cell for 2 weeks charged with misconduct for *NOT* wearing a bra and who had AN EXTRA FIVE DAYS added to her sentence when "another" misconduct charge was ADDED for having said she did *NOT* want to wear a bra even though she had already been "braless" already for 8.5 months), says: "No matter what an inmate does, if the institution wants to punish, they will get punished." Toronto Metro News, Monday, November 26, 2012, "Female inmate alleges she was 'thrown in the hole' for no bra", page 6 That assessment of Correctional Service Canada's VINDICTIVE, *CRIMINAL* BEHAVIOR is VERY DISTURBING BECAUSE IT'S INFLICTING PSY- CHOLOGICAL TORTURE. dictionary.com/vindictive DENIED PAROLE Correctional Service Canada alleges ... 1. that Ashley Smith was NOT READY 1. TO LEAVE THE PRISON 2. that Ashley Smith signed documents 1. to say just that. This caN'T possibly BE true given what was said at the inquest about how much Ashley looked forward to going home according to her Mom: that's what they talked about "ALL THE TIME". That's what kept Ashley Smith SANE! AT THE ONE-THIRD SENTENCE MARK "Ashley Smith turned down her right to apply for full parole in early 207, writing "not ready for re- lease" on a waiver she signed as she neared the one third mark of her prison sentence." Toronto Star, Wednesday, March 27th, 2013, "Troubled teen turned down parole chance: Prison officer testifies she wasn't ready to go", page A8 AT THE TWO-THIRD SENTENCE MARK "Smith was eligible for full parole in mid-February 2007 - her statutory release date at the time was November 2007, the two-thirds point of her sen- tence - but on the National Parole Board waiver on Jan. 19, 2007, Smith gave up her right to a parole review." Toronto Star, Wednesday, March th, 2013, Troubled teen turned down parole chance: Prison officer testifies she wasn't ready to go", page A8 FORGED? Was her signature FORGED? THAT SEEMS QUITE LIKELY. "The waiver came up Tuesday during testimony from Rob Harris, who was Smith's institutional parole officer at Nova Institution, a federal prison for women in Truro, N.S. Smith was sent from Nova to RPC (Regional sychiatric Centre) in December 2006." "The document was co-signed by Smith's parole officer at RPC (Regional Psychiatric Centre), and also by the head of that institution, a secure forensic centre that is part prison, part psychiatric facility." "Harris testified that even if Smith wanted to apply for full parole, she was in no way ready for release." "... her inappropriate behavior would affect public safety, Harris told the inquest." Toronto Star, Wed- nesday, March 27th, 2013, "Troubled teen turned down parole chance: Prison officer testifies she wasn't ready to go", page A8 The É(eh)PC Policy NO TEENAGER WILL GO TO JAIL, but could be treated as a psychiatric patient - if need be. Currently, 25% of the 55,000 inmate po- pulation are teenagers who are *NOT* in school: that's A TREMENDOUS LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY. But it also represent A TREMENDOUS *UNNECESSARY* COST to the taxpayer according to the É(eh)PC. At a cost of $200,000 a year to keep some- one in jail, it costs (.25 x 55,000 x $200,000) $2.75 BILLION to keep teenagers in jail every year. NOT sending teenagers to jail translates into A $2.75 BILLION SAVING to the taxpayer. Ashley Smith's HEROIC Anti-FASCIST Spirit The É(eh)PC will honour Ashley Smith, Canada's GREATEST Anti-FASCIST heroine with ... - the Ashley Smith Anti-FASCIST Law - the Ashley Smith Oct.19th National - Teen Holiday - the Ashley Smith Statue on Parliament - Hill's Front Lawn, - the Ashley Smith Museum across the - street from Parliament Hill in which - will be housed the Ashley Smith Wall - of Shame Kenneth Selin (say'leen) ~~~ B.A.(Psychology), B.A.(Spanish), B.Admin., B.Comm.(Honours), B.A.(Italian) magna cum laude ~~~ É(eh)PC President/Party Leader ~~~ 100%financially transparent, DEMOCRATIC Gov't - by thePEOPLE - for thePEOPLE eh-ok.ca |