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The family of Soleiman Faqiri commends the results of a Coroner's Inquest looking into his death. Faqiri died while in custody at the Central East Corrections Centre in 2016.

Soleiman Faqiri’s deadly restraint by Ontario jail guards in 2016 has been deemed a homicide — words his family has waited to hear for nearly seven years, since he died shackled, pepper sprayed and covered with a spit hood face down on a cell floor.

Lawyers at a coroners inquest say the death of a mentally ill man in an Ontario prison should be deemed a homicide, as they made dozens of recommendations that, if implemented, would broadly reshape psychiatric care behind bars.

Jurors examining the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail are being asked to find he died as a result of a homicide.

Clark Moss was a sergeant at the Central East Correctional Centre when Soleiman Faqiri was in custody in December 2016.

A former correctional officer testifying at a coroners inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail on Wednesday recalled getting an “incredibly bad sinking feeling” as soon as he saw the man in his segregation cell.

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A coroner's inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail is hearing from a correctional officer who had the man recorded on video.

A former correctional officer testifying at a coroners inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail on Wednesday recalled getting an “incredibly bad sinking feeling” as soon as he saw the man in his segregation cell.

The jail sergeant who broke protocol to film Soleiman Faqiri's condition in the hope of getting him help choked back tears as he recalled the joy in Faqiri's face when he finally had a shower after days of deteriorating in segregation.