Death of Shannon Sargent in her OCDC cell stunned jail nurse
Diane Longmuir told a coroner's inquest on Wednesday she was sure Sargent would have been admitted to hospital, not returned to jail.
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Diane Longmuir told a coroner's inquest on Wednesday she was sure Sargent would have been admitted to hospital, not returned to jail.
A guard at the Ottawa jail warned that Sargent was too ill to be accepted, but was overruled by her superiors. Sargent died the next day.
A guard at the Ottawa jail warned that Sargent was too ill to be accepted, but was overruled by her superiors. Sargent died the next day.
Don Mamakwa of Kasabonika Lake First Nation had a 97 per cent chance of surviving the night if he had been brought to hospital instead of a Thunder Bay, Ont., police cell in August 2014, an emergency-room physician tells an inquest.
The inquest into the deaths of Donald Mamakwa and Roland McKay, who both died while in Thunder Bay Police Service custody, will take place in Thunder Bay on Oct. 11, 2022.