Surveillance videos screened at a coroner’s inquest in Toronto into the prison death of a troubled teenager from Moncton show her being repeatedly tranquilized against her will by corrections officials.
The videos were released yesterday after a two-year fight.
They show 19-year-old Ashley Smith at several points in the run-up to her October 2007 choking death in her cell in Kitchener, Ontario.
One clip from that year shows guards restraining a hooded Smith on an airplane as she is transferred from a Saskatoon prison, where a supervisor had assaulted her.
