Inquest hears recommendations after Indigenous man’s death in jail – SooToday.com
The 46 recommendations include improving access to mental health care for Indigenous individuals, particularly those in remote communities
Improving access to mental health care for Indigenous individuals – particularly those in remote communities – and creating a mental health unit in a northern Ontario jail were among 46 recommendations presented Wednesday at the inquest into the death of a renowned Indigenous artist.
Jurors at the inquest examining what happened to Moses Beaver will now be able to adopt, oppose or amend the recommendations put forward collectively by lawyers for the artist’s family, the Ontario government and other parties.
Beaver, an artist from Nibinamik First Nation, was found unresponsive in a Thunder Bay, Ont., jail cell in February 2017 before being taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead by suicide. He was 56.
