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A 55-year-old inmate found hanged at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre had requested a move to the protective custody unit of the jail after being rejected by maximum security prisoners, a coroner’s inquest hear Monday.
Renaud-Louis Grenier, a Cornwall man who had served no previous jail time, died at the Innes Road facility in the early morning of Oct. 18, 2011.
Grenier had been charged by Cornwall police with assault with a weapon and had been at the detention centre for two weeks.
He arrived at the jail with an order from a Cornwall court that he undergo a mental health assessment to determine, among other things, whether he was criminally responsible.
It isn’t clear whether that assessment was done.
Steve Ashdown, now security manager at the jail, told the Ottawa inquest that intake officers had placed Grenier in maximum security because of the seriousness of the charges.
But for unknown reasons, maximum-security inmates rejected him.
“The inmates decided on their own they didn’t want him in the unit,” Ashdown told the five-person jury. ”They can ask the new inmate to leave the unit and they can be violent about it or social about it. Fortunately in this case they were social about it. There was no violence.”
There are a myriad of reasons why new prisoners are rejected by other inmates, added Ashdown — age or gang affiliation among them. The jail holds approximately 530 inmates, most of whom are waiting for their cases to be dealt with in court, plus some serving minor sentences of a few months.
The prisoner population is boosted by up to 100 between Friday and Monday by inmates serving weekend sentences
The inquest continues.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
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Renaud-Louis Grenier, a Cornwall man who had served no previous jail time, died at the Innes Road facility in the early morning of Oct. 18, 2011.
Grenier had been charged by Cornwall police with assault with a weapon and had been at the detention centre for two weeks.
He arrived at the jail with an order from a Cornwall court that he undergo a mental health assessment to determine, among other things, whether he was criminally responsible.
It isn’t clear whether that assessment was done.
Steve Ashdown, now security manager at the jail, told the Ottawa inquest that intake officers had placed Grenier in maximum security because of the seriousness of the charges.
But for unknown reasons, maximum-security inmates rejected him.
“The inmates decided on their own they didn’t want him in the unit,” Ashdown told the five-person jury. ”They can ask the new inmate to leave the unit and they can be violent about it or social about it. Fortunately in this case they were social about it. There was no violence.”
There are a myriad of reasons why new prisoners are rejected by other inmates, added Ashdown — age or gang affiliation among them. The jail holds approximately 530 inmates, most of whom are waiting for their cases to be dealt with in court, plus some serving minor sentences of a few months.
The prisoner population is boosted by up to 100 between Friday and Monday by inmates serving weekend sentences
The inquest continues.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
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