The coroner's inquest into the death of Moncton, N.B., teenager Ashley Smith is scheduled to hear today from her mother Coralee, who is expected to testify in Toronto about what she knew about how her daughter was being treated in federal prison.
Ashley Smith was first incarcerated at age 15. She was 19 when she died at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., in October 2007, after she tied a piece of cloth around her neck while guards, who were ordered not to intervene, stood outside her cell door and watched.
Coralee Smith says 'Ashley couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I hope we can.' (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press) Coralee Smith has demanded to know how Ashley was treated in the final months of her life, why the troubled teen was mostly in segregation and why she was moved 17 times to nine prisons in less than a year, and was sometimes forcibly restrained or injected with drugs.
"The only people who know anything are the hands-on people who were with her," she told CBC News from her home in Dartmouth, N.S., last month.
Since the inquest began on Jan. 14, it has heard from several guards and a prison supervisor who testified they were uncomfortable with orders to ignore Ashley and not enter her cell to remove ligatures around her neck as long as she was breathing.
Many said they disagreed with those orders while admitting they usually followed them.
Smith said she hopes her daughter's death will bring about significant changes in the way people with mental-health issues are treated in Canadian prisons.
"Ashley couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I hope we can," she said.
Smith said any answers she gives at the inquest Wednesday will "be honest, and it's gonna be from the heart."
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