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Ashley’s N.S. ordeal
BY DAN WALSH
FORMER NOVA INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN
WARDEN ALFRED LEGERE HAS NO COMMENT
ON THE RECENT SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE FAM-
ILY OF THE LATE ASHLEY SMITH AND HIS BOSS,
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES CANADA.
“I’m not aware of any of the settlement
details,” said Alfred, now assistant warden
at Springhill, the federal medium security
prison for men.
Alfred was personally named in the $11
million Ontario Superior Court lawsuit,
with 18 others, including prison guards,
assistant and acting wardens, and former
CSC commissioner Keith Coulter.
The lawsuit dates from July 2009, 21
months after Ashley hung herself on a
piece of cloth in a segregation cell inside
Grand Valley Institution in Kingston, Ont.
In the suit, Alfred was one of four senior
officials listed who “instructed staff... they
were not to enter Ashley Smith’s cell if she
was breathing.”
Forbidden from entering her cell, guards
watched the 19-year-old turn purple for half
Lung honcho’s
parking problem
BY NEAL OZANO
A VERY SPECIFIC PARKING PROBLEM IS AP-
PARENTLY JUST ONE REASON LUNG ASSOCIA-
TION OF NOVA SCOTIA STAFF ARE FLEEING THE
NON-PROFIT.
I’m told $105,000-per CEO and president
Louis Brill leaves his black Toyota
Corolla in the disabled stall at 6331 Lady
Hammond Road daily, leaving the disabled
- including some volunteers with lung disease
- unable to get inside.
“It was an ongoing joke, but it wasn’t very
funny,” says one source.
“Why doesn’t he just assign himself the
spot beside the handicapped stall? It’s not
like he doesn’t have the power to do that.”
A call to UNB grad Louis — “a natural
born coach,” according to the Lung Association’s
website, as well as director of the
Nova Scotia Special Olympics until 2005
— went unanswered before press time,
and an email kindly noted that he was on
vacation until May 24.
Meantime, another chatterer says four
communication managers, two health initiatives
managers and four fund develop-
20 FRANK MAGAZINE MAY 24, 2011
an hour. When they finally intervened, she
was dead.
In the last year of her life, prison officials
transferred Ashley exactly 17 times.
The subject of a Fifth Estate documentary,
Ashley endured three stints at Truro’s
Nova Institute, totalling 89 days incarceration,
and an additional three days at the
Central Nova Correctional Facility in
Burnside in her final year.
According to court documents, Ashley’s
August 2007 Nova Institute confinement
resulted in seven grievances filed against
her jailers. Ashley’s complaints included:
(1) CSC staff used excessive force against
her; (2) for four days, they refused to let her
leave her cell for physical exercise; (3) they
failed to provide copies of decisions from
reviews of her segregation status; (4) they
refused to provide food beyond finger
foods; (5) they refused to provide soap; (6)
they refused to provide sufficient toilet paper
(only four squares at a time); (7) they
refused to provide a sufficient number of
tampons or underwear during her men-
Ashley Smith
struation.
Ashley’s horrific experience in the Nova
Scotia prison system was repeated in
every single institution in which she was
placed across the country.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
Louis Brill’s car parked in the handicapped parking spot.
ment managers have left or been terminated
in the last two years.
“The attrition rate has been overboard.”
I understand some unhappy campers
have complained to Lung Association
board chairwoman Linda Gregory.
“They don’t do anything about it because
he gives them the results they want,” the
source says. On top of his salary, Lucky
Louis was given a $10,000 bonus in 2009,
I understand.
Linda, the Municipality of Digby warden,
didn’t return a call for comment before
press time.
neal@atlanticfrank.ca