Being on a suicide watch does not guarantee a person will not kill oneself. Ashley Smith, a female inmate at a facility in Canada, killed herself while under suicide watch in October 2007.
The Ashley Smith inquest was an Ontario coroner’s inquest into the death of Ashley Smith, a teenager who died by self-inflicted strangulation on 19 October 2007 while under suicide watch in custody at the Grand Valley Institution for Women. Despite guards watching her on video monitors, Smith was able to strangle herself with a strip of cloth, and it was 45 minutes before guards or supervisors entered her cell and confirmed her death.[1] The warden and deputy warden were fired after the incident; although the four guards and supervisors in immediate contact with Smith were initially charged with negligent homicide, those charges were withdrawn a year later.[2] Smith’s family brought a lawsuit against the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) for negligence; this lawsuit was settled out of court in May 2011.
Smell about the same? And you’ll notice there were no other marks reported except on the neck. My question is how did he hang himself and then while still conscious, remove the device he used and crawl into a fetal position just to die? Can we say Vince Foster?
rwood
What makes you believe he hung himself ?